Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
April 24, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis notifies the individuals using its services that on April 24, 2015, unknown hackers manipulated the DNS to redirect some of the Bank's web traffic to rogue webpages.
St. Mary's Health
March 20, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
St. Mary's Health (stmarys.org) announces that several employees had their usernames and passwords compromised. Unfortunately their email accounts contained personal information on roughly 4,400 individuals.
Boleto Bancario
February 12, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
A new attack on Boletos, the Brazilian nation-wide payment system. This time the criminals poison the DNS entry used by a bank's website to redirect the users to a site controlled by them.
Delta Airlines
February 10, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Delta Air Lines admits that its Facebook page has been hacked, posting "objectionable and offensive content ".
Le Monde
January 20, 2015
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Yet another victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The Twitter account of the French newspaper Le Monde is hacked and posts a polemic tweet "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
New York Post
January 17, 2015
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
A total of six fake messages are posted from the Twitter accounts of New York Post and United Press International (UPI) by unknown individuals.
Fidelity National Financial
October 27, 2014
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Fidelity National Financial notifies an undisclosed number of individuals that their personal information may have been accessible after a small number of employees had their email accounts compromised in a targeted phishing attack.
Provo City School District
October 3, 2014
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Personal information of more than 1,000 employees of Provo City School District is accessed by an unidentified party, who used phishing to breach the systems.
University of Louisiana at Monroe
August 21, 2014
•[ social, phishing, education ]
An employee of the University of Louisiana at Monroe falls victim of a phishing attempt, possibly compromising the personal information of students who graduated from ULM in fall 2013, and spring 2014.
Israeli Defense Contractors
July 14, 2014
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Brian Krebs reveals that three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the Iron Dome missile shield were compromised by a well-crafted phishing attack and robbed of huge quantities of sensitive documents pertaining to the shield technology.
Brazilian Ministry of External Relations
May 30, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
The internal communications system of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations has been hit by hackers carried on with spear-phishing emails.
Midwest Orthopaedics
April 8, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
More than 1,200 patients of Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (MOR) may have had personal information compromised after an unknown individual gained unauthorized access to a doctor's personal email account, which contained the data.
St. Aldhelm's Academy
April 8, 2014
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Members of the finance staff at the UK's St. Aldhelm's Academy were fooled in July of 2013 by an e-mail that appeared to come from the school's bank. As a consequence, more than 1 million ($1.7 million) was stolen.
EA
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, social, phishing ]
One of Electronic Arts' servers is breached, allowing hackers to create a phony Apple log-in screen that prompts users for personal information.
Julie Bishop
March 18, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop's followers to a phishing site.
Supercell Facebook Pages
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
The Facebook pages of two games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans, developed by the Helsinki-based video game developer Supercell are hacked. The attack is executed by hijacking the emails of two Supercell employees.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock
January 31, 2014
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Dartmouth-Hitchcock notifies some employees that their names and direct deposit bank account information were compromised after some employees fell for a phishing attempt.
Xbox Twitter account
January 13, 2014
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
In the same campaign the Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter Xbox Support account, the Xbox Twitter and Instagram, and Microsoft employees.
