The British Royal Navy’s website was shut down temporarily in response to an attack that had Royal Navy brass wondering whether the hack resulted in unauthorized access to sensitive back-end database files. Cisco: SQL injections made up 36.86 of all events recorded by Cisco Remote Operations Services. The biggest mitigation technique is really sanitization of user input, says security trainer Jeromie Jackson. Developers should not be granted carte blanche with root access simply to make their lives easier through easy account syncing between databases and applications.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/royal-navy-attack-stresses-sql-injection-dangers