A series of technical problems—from alleged cyber-attacks and internal errors—interrupted major news organization websites this week, causing website outages and exposing reporters’ private information.
“There has been a paradigm shift in the cyber market, where we have moved away from pure privacy or data breach into challenging first-party areas of Business Interruption (BI), resilience, and data loss,” says Phil Mayes, senior vice president of Lockton’s Global Technology and Privacy Practice.
On Thursday, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, redirected Washington Post readers to its own website and broke into reporters’ social media accounts, stating that it also attacked Time Magazine and CNN.
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