Sunrun
January 27, 2017
•[ social, phishing, energy ]
Solar panel maker Sunrun is hit with a spearphishing attack, impersonating the CEO Lynn Jurich, that gets away with the company employee W-2 information.
Campbell County Health
January 26, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Social Security numbers and W-2 information for about 1,400 employees who worked over the past year at Campbell County Health are mistakenly released to someone impersonating a hospital executive.
Odessa School District
January 26, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Odessa School District is hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Argyle school district
January 25, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Argyle school district warns its workers that their W-2 tax forms were lost in a phishing attack.
Tipton County Schools
January 23, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tipton County Schools are hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Dracut Public Schools
January 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Current and former employees' personal information, including SSN, is acquired by a hacker after an employee falls for what the district describes as a "sophisticated phishing scheme."
Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
Unknown Organization
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Southcentral Foundation (SCF) in Alaska notifies 14,719 individuals after two employees' email accounts containing protected health information were hacked in October.
KeepKey
December 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, discloses how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords.
Three Mobile
November 18, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Three Mobile admits that hackers have successfully accessed its customer upgrade database after using an employee login. 6 million customers' private information is at risk.
City of El Paso
November 2, 2016
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The City of El Paso is "robbed" of about $3 million intended for the streetcar project, when a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city by using a phishing attack.
New Zealand Nurses Organization
November 2, 2016
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
New Zealand Nurses Organization notifies 47,000 members of a breach after a spear phishing campaign.
City of Duluth
October 31, 2016
•[ social, phishing, government ]
More than 55,000 Duluth residents receive letters informing them that voter registration lists and other personal information may have been exposed as a result of an email phishing attack at city hall.
The Clinton Foundation
October 6, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
The Clinton Foundation warns donors about targeted hacking attempts to steal their personal information.
SS&C Technologies
September 16, 2016
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
SS&C Technologies, falls victim to China-based hackers who sent fake emails to company staffers in order to trick them into releasing client money, according to a complaint.
San Francisco Exploratorium Museum
September 6, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The San Francisco Exploratorium Museum admits to have fallen victim to a Spear Phishing Attack.
Baystate Health
August 22, 2016
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Baystate Health reveals that about 13,000 patients may have had some of their personal information compromised, due to a "phishing" e-mail that was received by some staff members.
North Carolina State University
June 3, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals.
Saint Agnes Medical Center
May 5, 2016
•[ financial, phishing, healthcare ]
2,800 employees of the Saint Agnes Medical Center are impacted by a possible identity theft after scammers got the W-2's of everyone employed by the hospital.
Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
