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.
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.
Official Sony Music Global Twitter Account (@SonyMusicGlobal)
December 26, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
OurMine hack the Official Sony Music Global Twitter account (@SonyMusicGlobal) and Britney Spears joined the ranks of celebrities who have briefly died on the internet.
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.
Square Enix's European Twitter Account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU)
January 6, 2017
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Video game giant Square Enix's European Twitter account is hacked by a group of hackers calling themselves the "cyberwolfgang" and posts multiple tweets mocking other companies including rival gaming company EA, media outlet TechCrunch .
Ravish Kuma
December 9, 2016
•[ hack, social ]
The Legion collective hack the Twitter accounts of Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, two prominent journalists with Indian NDTV news channel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twitter account of Brendan Iribe, CEO of virtual reality company Oculus
June 29, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, is the latest victim of the trail of Twitter accounts hjiacks.
Lorrie Cranor
June 7, 2016
•[ social, government ]
Lorrie Cranor, FTC's chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked by an ID thief.
Drake's Twitter account (@Drake)
June 6, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
Drake's Twitter account was taken over by an account called @2aiden3.
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.
Mayfield Brain & Spine
May 9, 2016
•[ social, malware, healthcare ]
Mayfield Brain & Spine notifies its patients of a fake email containing malware sent to them. The incident affects a total of 23,341 patients.
Ryman Hospitality Properties
March 23, 2016
•[ phishing, social ]
Ryman Hospitality Properties falls victim to a fraudulent phishing scam that resulted in employees' IRS W-2 information, which includes Social Security numbers, being disclosed externally.
Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
OpSec Security
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
OpSec Security joins the list of the companies who have fallned victim to email scams, as a consequence the 2015 W-2 tax forms for current and former employees are compromised.
Kentucky State University
March 22, 2016
•[ social, leak, phishing ]
Kentucky State University is the victim of a BEC scam: an employee, responding to an email supposedly from the school's president, sends off the 2015 W-2s for about 1000 employees and students.
