Report from Irish solicitor – Leinster
10/01/2017 12:56:16A compromised website account password gave an attacker access to other website accounts with the same password.
Date discovered: December 2016
Type: Stolen password
Region: Leinster
Description: A social media site had a password breach that went unreported for several years. My password was lost in the breach. Several services that I use that had the same password were then compromised by attackers using several social media accounts to impersonate and scam people.
Client money stolen? No
Able to quantify cost of attack to practice? The issue was spotted within three hours, before the attacker’s scams could be completed.
Informed relevant authorities eg bank, police, insurers, Law Society? No