Priyanka Aash is credited with building global communities for cybersecurity leaders and shaping enterprise marketing strategies for over a decade. She has been nominated for the Cybersecurity Excellence Award for her leadership & AI innovations in cybersecurity and honored with the NetApp Excellerate HER award. She is also the author of “The AI Divide,” which explores how artificial intelligence is quietly rewiring human minds and influencing decisions. Earlier, she co-founded CISO Platform, the world’s first online platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among senior information security executives. Through this, she worked with the marketing teams of IBM, VMware, F5 Networks, Barracuda Networks, Check Point, and others, driving inbound marketing and enterprise growth. Priyanka is passionate about entrepreneurship, enterprise marketing strategy, and building communities that empower CISOs worldwide.
Date of Incident: January 27, 2026 Overview: The NationStates data breach, reported on February 2, 2026, involved an unauthorized remote code execution on the company’s production server on January 27, 2026. Attackers accessed and copied user data, including email addresses, MD5 hashed passwords, IP addresses, UserAgent strings, and potential private messages. The website was taken… Read More »NationStates data breach
Date of Incident: August 2025 Overview: In August 2025, a breach involving SonicWall’s cloud backup led to a ransomware attack on Marquis Software Systems, significantly impacting numerous US banks and credit unions. The attack exploited vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s firewall management system. Threat actors gained unauthorized access, stole firewall configuration files, and used them for lateral… Read More »SonicWall cloud backup hack leading to Marquis ransomware attack
Date of Incident: 2023 Overview: In 2023, Match Group experienced a data breach attributed to the ShinyHunters threat group, which leaked approximately 1.7 GB of files containing data on 10 million users from brands like Hinge, Match, and OkCupid. The breach involved unauthorized access through valid credentials, exploiting technique T1078 (Valid Accounts), but there was… Read More »Match Group Data Breach
Date of Incident: Early 2024 Overview: The France Travail Data Breach of 2024 involved a large-scale social engineering attack that compromised the personal information of approximately 43 million individuals. Key data such as names, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, emails, home addresses, and phone numbers were stolen, though bank details and passwords remained secure.… Read More »France Travail Data Breach 2024
Executive Summary By the end of 2025, one reality became impossible to ignore: the barrier to executing high-impact cyberattacks has collapsed. The most damaging breaches of the year were not driven by novel zero-days or exotic techniques. Instead, they reflected something more concerning-capabilities once limited to nation-state or elite criminal groups are now widely accessible.… Read More »Panel Brief | Top Breaches in Cyber Security in 2025