This sort of phishing attack, sometimes referred to as a "whaling" attack (targeting a high-value target within a company), has been on the rise recently. And we have since contacted the affected employees and have offered them two years of free identity-theft insurance and monitoring." Advertisement "We began sorting through which employees-current and past-may have been affected. "Within four hours of this incident, we confirmed that the phishing attack was an isolated incident and reported it to the FBI," the Snapchat spokesperson reported in the blog post. The individual targeted didn't recognize the message as a scam, and they forwarded the requested information. The message requested employee payroll information. On February 26, an employee in Snapchat's payroll department received a "spear phishing" e-mail that appeared to be from Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel-but that came from an external e-mail address. And for that, we’re just impossibly sorry."
"The bad news is that a number of our employees have now had their identity compromised. "The good news is that our servers were not breached, and our users’ data was totally unaffected by this," a company spokesperson said in the post. In a blog post on Sunday, Snapchat executives revealed that the payroll data of some current and former employees was exposed as the result of a scam e-mail sent to a human resources employee at the company.
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