Snapchat posted a public apology to its employees this weekend, confirming the company had fallen for a phishing scam that revealed internal payroll information.<\/p>\n
The scammers apparently sent an email to Snapchat\u2019s payroll department impersonating the company\u2019s\u00a0Chief Executive Officer and requesting employee information. It worked, unfortunately. Snapchat noted that its servers weren\u2019t breached, but some current and former employee\u00a0identities were compromised.<\/p>\n
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The company quickly reported the incident to the FBI. Snapchat also contacted all affected employees, offering two years of identity-theft insurance and monitoring for free. Finally, it says it\u2019s beefing up security efforts moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo make good on that last point, we will redouble our already rigorous training programs around privacy and security in the coming weeks,\u201d the company said. \u201cOur hope is that we never have to write a blog post like this again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s run into pretty bad security issues before,\u00a0but at its current size a customer data breach could be pretty devastating.<\/p>\n