Compliance
When Millions of Lives Are on the Line: Lessons From the 700Credit Data Breach
In late December 2025, a significant data breach involving 700Credit came to light. 700Credit is a U.S. based financial services and fintech provider that supports credit checks and identity verification for auto, RV, marine, and powersports dealerships. The breach exposed highly sensitive personal information belonging to more than 5.8 million consumers. The compromised data included…
Read MoreCybersecurity Shocks of 2025 and the Survival Lessons for 2026
As we look back at 2025, one thing became impossible to ignore. Cybersecurity is not slowing down. Threats evolved, attacks increased in both scale and sophistication, and many organizations discovered that one overlooked policy or unpatched system can still be enough to bring business operations to a halt. The Big Picture One of the most…
Read MoreCompliance Is NOT Security!
We have seen a continual pattern of this fact almost weekly. At IP Services, we’ve worked with countless organizations that proudly hold up their SOC 2 report, HIPPA, ISO 27001 certificate, or PCI DSS attestation…while companies are quietly running unpatched systems, weak privileged access, and incident response plans that haven’t been tested in years. Both…
Read MorePhishing with Adversary-in-the-Middle (AITM) Tactics: Why MFA Isn’t Bulletproof
For years, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been promoted as one of the best defenses against phishing attacks. By requiring something more than just a password (such as a text message code or app-based approval) businesses could make it far harder for attackers to break in. But in 2025, attackers have learned new tricks. A growing…
Read MoreCloud Control, Compromised: How Identity Gaps Trigger the Biggest Breaches
In 2024, IBM found that 82 percent of breaches touched data stored in the cloud and cost an average of $5.17 million when public‑cloud assets were hit (secureframe.comibm.com). Almost every one of those incidents started the same way: an attacker slipped through an identity crack. a mis‑scoped role, a neglected key, or an over‑privileged token and owned the…
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