Hackers Attack Santa's Workshop
Reports are filtering out of the North Pole that Santa’s Workshop has been hacked and billions of confidential records involving the naughty and nice list have been altered or stolen. A group calling themselves “The Coal Brigade” has claimed responsibility for the attack stating that, “The children on the naughty list are people too and that in the interest of exposing Santa’s vast invasion of privacy of naughty citizens everywhere, we have seized control of Santa’s database.” The group appears to be led by former workshop elf, Jacob Mistletoe, who is now seeking asylum in Antarctica after copying a list of workshop credentials to a candy cane drive.
Sebastian Snow, Santa’s Chief Naughty & Nice Officer (SCNNO), in a formal statement regarding the incident to the media said, “Unfortunately, we never expected an intrusion of our information systems, or we would have taken some precautions. After all, who would want to steal from Santa? We had over 500 years of records stolen…(Sob)… I’m sorry we are still in shock around here.” The incident is expected to cost Santa’s workshop millions of dollars as reports begin to surface that the naughty and nice list has been posted on an internet site called tinsel leaks.
The good news is that the above story is fictitious and was created to demonstrate that even the most unlikely of organizations may be targeted by malicious actors. As we step further into the information age, any organization could be on attacker’s radar whether it is to steal data, take control of infrastructure devices to launch attacks, or simply to play out a deep seeded vendetta. As such we all need to be security conscious as we perform our daily jobs; whether we rent a car to a mall Santa, lease a supply truck to transport materials to Santa’s workshop, or perform maintenance on a database that contains employee and customer information.
Sebastian Snow, Santa’s Chief Naughty & Nice Officer (SCNNO), in a formal statement regarding the incident to the media said, “Unfortunately, we never expected an intrusion of our information systems, or we would have taken some precautions. After all, who would want to steal from Santa? We had over 500 years of records stolen…(Sob)… I’m sorry we are still in shock around here.” The incident is expected to cost Santa’s workshop millions of dollars as reports begin to surface that the naughty and nice list has been posted on an internet site called tinsel leaks.
The good news is that the above story is fictitious and was created to demonstrate that even the most unlikely of organizations may be targeted by malicious actors. As we step further into the information age, any organization could be on attacker’s radar whether it is to steal data, take control of infrastructure devices to launch attacks, or simply to play out a deep seeded vendetta. As such we all need to be security conscious as we perform our daily jobs; whether we rent a car to a mall Santa, lease a supply truck to transport materials to Santa’s workshop, or perform maintenance on a database that contains employee and customer information.
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