Levi Strauss Filed an 8-K Over Three Laptops: Social Engineering as a Material Cyber Event
Levi Strauss & Co. filed a Form 8-K on 7 August 2026 disclosing that an unauthorized third party accessed company files through social engineering aga...
social-engineering
6 articles on social-engineering — privacy laws, security frameworks, and regulatory compliance.
Abbott's Two Incidents: A Vishing Call, a Legacy Cancer Diagnostics System, and an API Nobody Was Watching
Abbott Laboratories is investigating two apparently unrelated cyber incidents disclosed in July 2026 — a ShinyHunters intrusion into legacy Exact Scie...
5,811 Arrests, $293 Million Intercepted: What Interpol's Operation First Light 2026 Tells Your Fraud and AML Program
Interpol's Operation First Light 2026 produced 5,811 arrests across 97 countries, intercepted $293 million, and blocked 31,014 bank accounts tied to s...
iRhythm's Zio Breach: When a Help-Desk Phone Call Exposes Cardiac Patient Data Under HIPAA (2026)
In June 2026, attackers used social engineering to break into third-party-hosted business applications at iRhythm Holdings, maker of the Zio cardiac p...
Spectrum Class Action: 40 Million Records, One Vishing Call, and the CPNI Question Charter Now Faces
A wave of class-action lawsuits accuses Charter Communications of failing to safeguard the data of Spectrum customers after a vishing attack let hacke...
Cushman & Wakefield's Vishing-Triggered Breach: ShinyHunters, 500K Salesforce Records, and Third-Party Risk
In late April and early May 2026, Cushman & Wakefield confirmed a cyberattack originating from a voice phishing operation that gave ShinyHunters acces...