Sunderland City Council
January 14, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, ddos ]
Sunderland City Council reveals to have been hit with phishing and spoofing emails, and at least one Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, back in November.
Tecnimont SpA
January 11, 2019
•[ financial, phishing, energy ]
The Indian subsidiary of Tecnimont SpA falls prey to a fraud wherein $18.6 million (INR 130 crore) were being stolen by a group of Chinese hackers pretending to be trading an acquisition in China.
Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center
January 10, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center notifies patients of a phishing incident occurred in early April.
Caddo Parish School System
January 8, 2019
•[ financial, phishing, education ]
The Caddo Parish School System is scammed out of nearly $1 million in tax payer money after a phishing attack.
Kent County Community Mental Health
January 8, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kent County Community Mental Health Authority notifies 2,284 patients after phishing attack
Chaplaincy Health Care
January 4, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Chaplaincy Health Care offers free identity protection and credit monitoring to more than 1,000 people after an employee's email login credentials are compromised through an apparent phishing scheme.
Wichita State University
January 4, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
At least three employees of Wichita State University do not receive their paychecks after they fall victim of an e-mail phishing scheme.
Victorian government
January 1, 2019
•[ leak, phishing, government ]
The work details of 30,000 Victorian public servants have been stolen in a data breach, after part of the Victorian Government directory was downloaded by an unknown party after an employee's email account is compromised.
Residential Mortgage Services, Inc.
January 1, 2019
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
This cyber breach allegedly arose when a RMS employee clicked on a hyperlink in a phishing email that falsely appeared to originate from a RMS business partner. The RMS employee provided her email credentials to the malicious website opened by the hyperlink.
Sen. Claire McCaskill
December 31, 2018
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Sen. Claire McCaskill and her staffers are the targets of a spear phishing campaign allegedly orchestrated by the infamous Fancy Bear AKA APT28.
College of Eastern Idaho
December 28, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
College of Eastern Idaho notifies a security incident discovered on September 5, 2018, when suspicious email activity was detected within an employee's email account.
Family Physicians Group
December 28, 2018
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Family Physicians Group notifies more than 8,000 patients about a phishing attack on an employee's email account. Patient data may have been exposed between Aug. 7 and Aug. 21, 2018, when the company discovered the attack.
Westminster College
December 28, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah notifies people after eleven of their employees fell prey to phishing attacks.
Evercore
December 23, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Thousands of sensitive documents have been stolen by hackers in a cyber-attack on the influential investment bank Evercore, after an employee in London falls victim of a phishing attack.
San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD)
December 21, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) reveals that PII of more than a half million students and staff were compromised as the result of a phishing attack that may have occurred as early as January 2018.
Electrum Bitcoin wallets
December 21, 2018
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
A clever phishing attack targeting Electrum Bitcoin wallets results in the theft of more than $750,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
December 19, 2018
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
A report by Area 1 Security reveals that a successful phishing attack on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, an EU member nation, compromised the diplomatic communication network for the European Union (COREU).
San Francisco State University
December 4, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of San Francisco State University student accounts are hacked in a phishing attack.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
December 3, 2018
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Cancer Treatment Centers of America notifies almost 42,000 patients of possible access to their protected health information after a phishing attack occurred on May 2 and discovered on September 26.
Town of Christiansburg
November 29, 2018
•[ social, phishing, government ]
The information of 900 people of Christiansburg is compromised in a phishing scam.
