This is considered as one of the largest sophisticated cyber attacks ever. Over 75,000 computers in 2,500 companies all around the world has been attacked. It is believed that the attack was started as early as 2008.
The hack targeted credit-card transaction details, emails, corporate data and information in companies who are into health care and information technology industry. Even computer networks at Google were not spared in this attack. Companies in 196 countries were hacked during the last 1 year. The criminal groups involved in this attack are now targeting countries like China and Russia. Read the full story
