During Hurricane Sandy, researchers mapped the sentiment of tweets posted from within the storm's path and found something a simple read-through would have missed: sentiment shifted measurably with distance from the hurricane's center, giving emergency responders a rough proxy for where distress was concentrated in...
In late 2001, Enron's collapse triggered a federal investigation that eventually put the company's internal email archive, more than half a million messages exchanged between employees over several years, into the public record. Read one email at a time, it was an unremarkable stream of corporate...
In 2016, a consortium of journalists sat on 11.5 million leaked documents, 2.6 terabytes of financial and legal records tied to a Panamanian law firm, with no obvious way to make sense of them. Working with Neo4j's graph database and Linkurious' visualization software, the International...
In February 2021, an operator at a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida watched the cursor on his screen move on its own. Someone had logged into the plant's control system through TeamViewer, remote access software that staff had stopped using six months earlier but never removed. The...
In 2013, the FBI identified the operator of Silk Road, an online marketplace running on the anonymous Tor network, through a Stack Overflow post. Investigators found a coding question about connecting to a Tor hidden service, posted under a username called "frosty." One detail gave it away: the...
In 2026, researchers at Group-IB traced a single fraudulent investment platform back to a much larger network: the same contact details turned up across 23 other supposedly unrelated platforms, and the same hosting server turned up behind 208 more. Victims were reached through geo-targeted social media ads and...
