A successful email phishing attack aimed at Snaptchat’s payroll department has resulted in the compromise of payroll information about some current and former employees, the company has announced on Sunday.
The scammer impersonated Snapchat’s CEO, and asked for the aforementioned info. Unfortunately, one of the employees was tricked into believing the email was legitimate, and sent it.
“The good news is that our servers were not breached, and our users’ data was totally unaffected by this. The bad news is that a number of our employees have now had their identity compromised. And for that, we’re just impossibly sorry,” Team Snapchat
noted.
The company reacted swiftly. They notified the FBI about the incident, and set up to discover which employees have been affected. Once the list was compiled, they contacted them and offered them two years of free identity-theft insurance and monitoring.
