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.
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.
Wishbone (2016)
August 7, 2016
•[ hack, social, technology ]
In August 2016, the mobile app to "compare anything" known as Wishbone suffered a data breach. The data contained 9.4 million records with 2.2 million unique email addresses and was allegedly a subset of the complete data set. The exposed data included genders, birthdates, email addresses and phone numbers for an audience predominantly composed of teenagers and young adults.
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.
Gryphon Technologies
April 30, 2016
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
Gryphon Technologies joins the list of the companies falling victim to W-2 phishing scams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
