In Pictures: The most mortifying moments in IT security history

From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the US government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches

“2Checkout continues to fight an extortion based on (‘Pay us or else we will continue to attack’) DDoS attack. We apologize for any service disruptions,” – company statement of the Columbus, Ohio-based e-commerce company in 2004 after a week of rolling outages from the distributed denial-of-service attack.

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