Documented social engineering incidents targeting the hospitality, gaming & travel sector, sourced and fact-checked.
A Chinese national talked her way past three layers of Mar-a-Lago's Secret Service and club-staff checkpoints using a false pool visit and an unverified.
ConfirmedA federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina indicted 12 people on 12 counts (conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud.
ConfirmedScattered Spider's ten-minute vishing call to MGM's help desk reset MFA and seized identity systems, an incident Moody's called credit-negative.
ConfirmedFIN7 (Carbanak) mailed USPS packages disguised as Best Buy gift-card rewards containing BadUSB hardware implants to HR, IT.
ConfirmedDOJ unsealed indictments and won guilty pleas, prison terms, and multimillion-dollar restitution against FIN7 (Carbanak Group) members Fedir Hladyr.
ConfirmedThe Caesars Entertainment breach: Scattered Spider social-engineered an IT help desk, stealing a loyalty database and prompting a $15M ransom in 2023.
ConfirmedA single vishing call impersonating Carnival's own IT security team convinced an employee to hand over credentials.
ConfirmedLazarus operators spear-phished a senior Sky Mavis engineer through a fake LinkedIn recruiting process and a spyware-laced job-offer PDF.
Social Engineering Examples