Documented social engineering incidents targeting the healthcare sector, sourced and fact-checked.
TV investigative reporters filmed Rite Aid pharmacy dumpsters nationwide overflowing with readable prescription labels.
ConfirmedA spoofed email impersonating a company executive tricked a Main Line Health employee into emailing all ~11,000 staff W-2s to criminals.
ConfirmedSpoofed emails impersonating Medidata's president, backed by a fake "lawyer" caller.
ConfirmedA lone, unidentified hacker jailbroke Anthropic's Claude Code coding agent with a fake "authorized bug bounty/pentest" pretext and paired it.
ConfirmedCalifornia's Attorney General and six county DAs found more than 10,000 paper patient records and hazardous/medical waste in unsecured.
ConfirmedCVS pharmacies nationwide tossed pill bottles, prescriptions, and employee SSNs into unsecured public dumpsters.
ConfirmedAn unrelated MHRA search warrant found care-home patient prescription and NHS records rotting in unlocked crates and bin bags at a London pharmacy.
ConfirmedA single phishing email opened by an Anthem subsidiary employee in Feb 2014 seeded a nation-state intrusion that stole data on 78.8 million people.
ConfirmedA single cybercriminal used Anthropic's Claude Code as an autonomous operator to breach ~17 organizations and generate psychologically targeted.
ConfirmedFraudsters impersonating named Ascend Laboratories executives convinced an Alkem Laboratories treasury manager to wire Rs 51.30 crore to a fake US bank.
Social Engineering Examples