Snow was falling. Christmas music played in every Target store.
Parents were hunting for deals. Kids were begging for toys. Target’s network was buzzing with the electrical joy of capitalism.
Yahoo thought it was just another day in 2013. But deep inside their authentication systems, attackers were already rummaging around like they owned the place.
Employees panicked as machines shut down, phones died, and entire servers started erasing themselves. Backup drives were overwritten. Render farms collapsed. Years of unreleased scripts,
Long before ransomware, zero-days, or nation-state APTs, the world’s most powerful communications network could be hacked with a plastic toy whistle from a cereal box.
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