A Snapchat employee has fallen for the oldest trick in the book

Snapchat suffered a data breach over the weekend after one of its staff fell for a phishing email asking for payroll information and purporting to be from the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel. The company has assured the world that its servers were not breached – so no user data has been compromised – but it has contacted former and current staff whose sensitive information has been shared externally. Snapchat has offered two years of free identity-theft insurance to those people who have been affected and reported the incident to the FBI. When something like this happens, all you can do is own up…

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