This week, during a post-mortem of a retail client’s breach, two words kept lighting up the SIEM dashboard: .

Posted by: Security Team @SecureOps Date: April 14, 2026

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But when we dig into the logs, the truth is usually more specific—and more terrifying. The real story isn't just "hacked." The real story is .

We hear the phrase all the time: “We got hacked.”