Happy 11th Birthday, Krebs OnSecurity!
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity marked its 11th anniversary on December 29, 2020, noting that nearly 150 stories published that year drew close to 9,000 reader responses, about 6 percent of them on a single story. The post recaps the year's popular features, including a Romanian skimmer gang in Mexico that KrebsOnSecurity reported stole $1.2 billion, and states the site runs no third-party ads, hosting all creatives in-house and vetting them before publication.
What's compelling: The site's own accounting puts a single story behind roughly 6 percent of nearly 9,000 responses, a reminder of how much reader attention concentrates on one breach or scam narrative. The $1.2 billion skimmer figure tied to a gang KrebsOnSecurity outed shows the scale a single organized crime group can reach.
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