Solano Community College
April 28, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
Olympia School District
April 13, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing attack compromises the identities of more than 2,100 employees of Olympia School DIstrict.
Tidewater Community College
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tidewater Community College reports that the tax information of all those employed at the school in 2015 (3000 employees) is taken in a spear phishing scam.
Moneytree
March 4, 2016
•[ financial, phishing, social ]
Moneytree is the latest company to alert current and former employees that their tax data, including Social Security numbers, salary and address information, was accidentally handed over directly to scam artists.
GCI
March 4, 2016
•[ financial, leak, phishing ]
GCI notifies more than 2,500 employees that their W-2 forms were stolen in an apparent phishing scam in February.
Seagate
March 1, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Seagate is the last victim of a payroll phish. A Seagate employee sends the data to an outside e-mail address after receiving an e-mail purportedly from Seagate's CEO Stephen Luczo requesting 2015 W-2 data for current and former Seagate employees.
Magnolia Health Corporation
February 3, 2016
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Magnolia Health Corporation suffers a breach after an unknown perpetrator uses MHC CEO Kensett Moyle's email address to request an Excel spreadsheet containing employee information.
Metropolitan Jewish Health System
January 18, 2016
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Metropolitan Jewish Health System notifies members and patients of phishing incident, possibly involving 2,483 individuals.
Facebook Account of Ruqia Hassan
January 5, 2016
•[ espionage, social, technology ]
The Independent reveals that after murdering the activist Ruqia Hassan Mohammed in September, the ISIS jihadists hijacked and continued to operate her social media accounts until very recently to lure other opponents into a trap.
Matthew Craig (matthdgamer)
October 8, 2015
•[ social, technology ]
Six of the most successful FIFA video gamers to feature on YouTube are targeted by cyber-thieves, who are able to steal millions of FIFA coins, the in-game currency, and delete valuable players. The attackers are thought to have convinced manufacturer EA to transfer their victims' Origin accounts to email addresses the hackers controlled.
Hawaii First Federal Credit Union
September 3, 2015
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Hawaii First Federal Credit Union notifies an undisclosed number of customers that an unauthorized individual may have gained access to an employee's email account, and could have accessed personal information.
Red Granite Pictures
July 30, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Red Granite Pictures, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has allowed the attackers to intimidate employees and disrupt its business via a mass emails campaign.
Partners HealthCare
April 30, 2015
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Non-profit health care system Partners HealthCare notifies about 3,300 patients about a security breach after a phishing email attack.
Saint Agnes Health Care
April 27, 2015
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Saint Agnes Health Care notifies appoximately 25,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised by attackers who used a phishing email to gain access to an emplyee's email account which contained the data.
Seton Family of Hospitals
April 30, 2015
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Seton Family of Hospitals notifies approximately 39,000 patients that an employee's email address, which contained personal information, was compromised in a phishing attack.
Chipotle
February 9, 2015
•[ hack, social, retail ]
Fast-food restaurant chain Chipotle is forced to apologise after its Twitter account (@ChipotleTweets) isused to post racist, homophobic and anti-government tweets.
Antonio Cesaro
February 17, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The official verified Twitter account of WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro (@WWECesaro) is hacked by unknown hackers wishing cancer to the company's Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon.
Newsweek
February 10, 2015
•[ hack, social, technology ]
The CyberCaliphate hacks the Newsweek Twitter Account (@Newsweek) and threatens US President Barack Obama.
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.
