2011 was a great year — for cyber criminals. Few companies, if any, were patching in 2011, not even enough so to prevent the most common malware attacks. Attackers were eagerly compromising the weakest websites to swipe credentials for breaking in to into the more secure, more popular websites. Attacks were documented, coordinated, long-term, successful attacks against much of our critical infrastructure, including government and military targets, nuclear labs, the chemical sector, and energy and water utilities. It doesn’t even take that much damage to end your company completely.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2618422/2011-was-the-year-of-the-cyber-criminal.html