Clarion University
December 7, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Clarion University employees are notified after two employees fall victim of a phishing attack.
Sinai Health System
December 7, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
At least two employees at Sinai Health System had their email accounts compromised in a phishing incident, potentially affecting the information of 11,350 people.
Baptist Health Louisville
December 5, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Baptist Health Louisville notifies 880 patients of a phishing incident that occurred in early October.
Bitcoin Gold
November 22, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
More than $3.3 million worth of Cryptocurrency is stolen as part of an elaborate scam that took advantage of bitcoin users seeking to claim their share of the newly created cryptocurrency Bitcoin Gold.
Italian government
November 11, 2017
•[ leak, phishing, government ]
The Anonymous collective publishes some internal documents stolen from the email accounts of some government employees.
Griffin Funeral Home
October 18, 2017
•[ hack, phishing ]
A sick hack: hackers take over the email account of Griffin Funeral Home, and send email scams to the company's customers, asking for money.
Rivermend Health
October 10, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Rivermend Health notifies 1,300 patients who had information in an employee's email account that was compromised.
Augusta Medical Center
September 18, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Nearly five months after it happened, Augusta Medical Center announces that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts.
Morehead Memorial Hospital
September 15, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Morehead Memorial says that a data breach due to a phishing attack has potentially exposed patient and employee information.
Children's Hospital Colorado
September 9, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Children's Hospital Colorado notifies 3,400 families after an employee's email account was improperly accessed on July 11, 2017.
Community Memorial Health System
September 5, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
The Community Memorial Health System sends out a notice regarding a data security breach involving patient information after a phishing attack happened on June 23.
MacEwan University
August 23, 2017
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
MacEwan University staffers are tricked into transferring $11.8 million into scammers' bank accounts. The majority of the money, $11.4 million, has been traced to bank accounts in Montreal and Hong Kong.
Bittrex
August 19, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
A fake website pretends to be the official site for Bittrex exchange, but in reality, it is a phishing domain not only stealing login credentials of unsuspecting users, but also the money saved in the exchange.
Three major banks in Hungary
August 8, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The National Bank of Hungary reveals that hackers have been targeting three major banks in Hungary with a slew of phishing attempts.
Kaleida Health
August 1, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kaleida Health notifies 2,789 patients about a phishing incident that happened on May 24.
Bank of America customers
July 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
A new campaign targets Bank of America customers via emails pretending to be from representatives of the Bank of America.
Newcastle University
July 20, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Newcastle University issues an alert, warning prospective students to be careful when seeking to apply and pay online for courses, after discovering the existence of a sophisticated phishing scam.
Ireland's Electricity Supply Board
July 15, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, energy ]
The Times reveals that hackers backed by the Russian government have targeted the Republic of Ireland's energy sector, and aimed to infiltrate control systems. This would have given them the power to knock out parts of the grid in Northern Ireland. The attackers sent phishing emails to senior engineers at Ireland's Electricity Supply Board.
China Digital Times
July 5, 2017
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A threat actor targeted the China Digital Times, a civil-society and news organization based outside China that publishes English- and Chinese-language content, using phishing techniques with the goal of compromising its network.
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
June 30, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, energy ]
A threat actor targeted employees of companies that operate nuclear power plants in the United States, which prompted the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue an alert to the industry. An administrative network of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation was compromised.
