Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack

Re:Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack by viraptor on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:12PM (#11199055)

But unless you actually break into someone's account, email spoofing should be a solved problem. Sure, you can set the from field to whatever you want, but in a typical company scenario, it will look very different in outlook - it will actually display the sender's email, and if you try to spoof that, you'll just get rejected at the server.

Now if you ignore that and respond anyway... well, there's not much anyone can do about that.

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Re:Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack by employeeee on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:27PM (#11199178)

We've been a target of this attack previously and it's not as simple as email spoofing as email addresses aren't (in Google Apps at least) displayed prominently, [email protected] with a corresponding name and profile picture is how we were targeted. Very easy to fall for (especially in companies that aren't strict about personal/professional email separation).

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Re:Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack by wickawic on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:23PM (#11199148)

Serious question: what would it look like on a smartphone email client?

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Re:Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack by viraptor on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:45PM (#11199303)

No idea. Work email doesn't go anywhere close my smartphone.

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Re:Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack by paulddraper on Monday February 29, 2016 @06:08PM (#11199458)

How do you reply to emails at 11pm? ;)

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