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.
