Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-02-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Snapchat
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Snapchat executives reveal in a blog post that the payroll data of some current and former employees was exposed as the result of a scam e-mail (allegedly sent by the company CEO Evan Spiegel) received by a human resources employee.