Fidelity National Employees Hacked After Targeted Phishing Attack

Graham Cluley Oct 29, 2014
 
 
Your company’s defences against hackers are only as good as the weakest link.
 
That’s a message which hopefully is being understood loud and clear right now at Fidelity National Financial, America’s largest provider of commercial and residential mortgage services.
 
As SC Magazine reports, Fidelity National has just found itself in the awkward position of contacting an “undisclosed number of customers” who may have had their social security number, bank account details, payment card numbers and driver’s license details exposed to hackers following a recent security breach.
 
It appears that attackers sent phishing emails to a small number of Fidelity National employees and managed to trick workers into entering their usernames and passwords, as is described in their notification letter to affected consumers:
 
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