ClassicEtherWallet
June 29, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
An unknown attacker gains control over the web domain of Classic Ether Wallet, a client-side wallet system for the Ethereum Classic (ETC) cryptocurrency, being able to phish credentials and redirect transactions. Based on reported cases, the hacker might have stolen nearly $300,000.
Montenegro
June 6, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Security firm FireEye reveals the details of a wave of attacks targeting Montenegro using spear-phishing, after its decision to join NATO.
University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
University of Wisconsin Health
May 25, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
UW Health says that 2,036 patients had information compromised after an employee's email account was used by an unauthorized user on March 28, 2017.
UK Banks
May 2, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
DomainTools reveals that hundreds of fake website domains are being used by hackers to mimic some of the most popular banking services in the UK in an attempt to trick victims into handing over personal details and sensitive login credentials.
Gannett Co.
May 2, 2017
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A phishing email attack potentially compromises the accounts of as many as 18,000 current and former employees of media company Gannett Co.
Greenwood County School District 50
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
About 3,300 are affected by a security breach after the school discovers that an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees' emails as well as current and former employees' payroll accounts in January and February.
Hill Country Memorial Hospital
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Hill Country Memorial Hospital notifies patients after an employee email was accessed without authorization.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
April 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Cleveland Metropolitan School District discloses a phishing-related incident.
Iowa Veterans Home
April 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, government ]
Iowa Veterans Home warns nearly 3,000 of data breach after phishing incident.
Westminster College
April 17, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Westminster College in Missouri reveals the details of a breach discovered on March 26 after a phishing scam duped a staffer into sending off W-2 statements.
Amazon third-party sellers
April 10, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, retail ]
Amazon third-party sellers, are hit repeatedly by hackers who post fake deals on legitimate sellers' pages.
Internal Revenue Service
April 6, 2017
•[ government, hack, social ]
The Internal Revenue Service says that the personal data of as many as 100,000 taxpayers could have been compromised through a scheme in which hackers posed as students using an online tool to apply for financial aid.
Unnamed Brazilian bank
April 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals that on October 2016, a group of hackers rerouted all the traffic of an unnamed Brazilian bank's customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank's properties.
University of Idaho
March 6, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after a phishing incident.
PharmaNet
February 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The personal information of approximately 7,500 British Columbians may have been compromised through the provincial government's PharmaNet system, when an "unknown/unauthorized person obtained and used a physician's login to access PharmaNet."
Citizens Memorial Hospital
February 14, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Citizens Memorial Hospital employees' data are compromised by a W-2 phishing scam.
International Trade Union Confederation
February 14, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Amnesty International reveals the details of Operation Kingphish: a campaign of cyberattacks mainly targeting activists and journalists in Qatar and Nepal. One of the named victims is the International Trade Union Confederation.
Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.
Manatee County School District
February 3, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Manatee County School District is the victim of a phishing scam that compromises the information from almost 8,000 employees.
