{"meta":{"database":"Global Social Engineering Impact Database","url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app","license":"CC BY 4.0 — attribute to Netarx Social Engineering Incident Database","generated":"2026-08-29T09:18:53.438Z","total":3,"returned":3,"limit":50,"offset":0,"next":null,"note":"Read loss_kind before summing loss_usd: only direct_loss and ransom_paid are comparable. Entries with entry_type \"benchmark\" are aggregate agency statistics and overlap with everything else by construction."},"results":[{"slug":"2026-shinyhunters-sso-vishing-campaign-hits-100-organizations","title":"ShinyHunters SSO vishing campaign hits 100+ organizations","date":"2026-01","date_precision":"month","year":2026,"victim_org":"100+ organizations across technology, finance, biotech, energy, healthcare, logistics, retail and insurance","sector":"Other","country":"Global","primary_vector":"Vishing (Voice Phishing)","secondary_vectors":["Credential Phishing Portal","Help Desk Impersonation"],"ai_involvement":"Unknown","ai_notes":"","outcomes":["Credential Theft","Data Breach","Extortion"],"loss_usd":null,"loss_kind":null,"loss_note":"","records_affected":null,"threat_actor":"ShinyHunters / Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters","summary":"Through January 2026 researchers at Okta, Mandiant, Sophos and Silent Push tracked an ongoing campaign in which callers impersonating IT support walked employees into fake single sign-on portals. More than 100 organisations were targeted and roughly 150 malicious lookalike domains were registered. Silent Push named Atlassian, Adyen, Canva, Epic Games, HubSpot, Moderna, ZoomInfo, GameStop, WeWork, Halliburton, Sonos and Telstra among those targeted; Betterment, Crunchbase and SoundCloud were confirmed breached.","how_it_worked":"Operators phoned employees claiming to be internal IT or a trusted service provider, then drove them to a domain mimicking their Okta, Microsoft Entra or Google sign-in page. The phishing kits carried client-side scripts that let the attacker steer the victim's browser in real time, so the caller's spoken instructions stayed in step with what the employee saw on screen. That synchronisation let them prompt for the exact MFA code or push approval at the right moment, harvesting credentials and live session tokens, then pivoting into connected SaaS tenants to bulk-export data for extortion.","lessons":"Phishing-resistant MFA bound to the origin (FIDO2 passkeys, device-bound certificates) removes the code the caller is trying to talk out of the employee; conditional access limiting sign-in to managed devices closes the rest.","confidence":"Confirmed","sources":[{"title":"Over 100 Organizations Targeted in ShinyHunters Phishing Campaign","url":"https://www.securityweek.com/over-100-organizations-targeted-in-shinyhunters-phishing-campaign/","publisher":"SecurityWeek"},{"title":"A new wave of 'vishing' attacks is breaking into SSO accounts in real time","url":"https://cyberscoop.com/shinyhunters-voice-phishing-sso-okta-mfa-bypass-data-theft/","publisher":"CyberScoop"}],"entry_type":"campaign","url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/incidents/2026-shinyhunters-sso-vishing-campaign-hits-100-organizations"},{"slug":"2025-stellantis-confirms-customer-data-stolen-from-salesforce-platform","title":"Stellantis confirms customer data stolen from Salesforce platform","date":"2025-09","date_precision":"month","year":2025,"victim_org":"Stellantis","sector":"Manufacturing","country":"Netherlands","primary_vector":"Vishing (Voice Phishing)","secondary_vectors":["Vendor / Supply Chain Impersonation"],"ai_involvement":"No AI reported","ai_notes":"","outcomes":["Data Breach","Extortion"],"loss_usd":null,"loss_kind":null,"loss_note":"","records_affected":null,"threat_actor":"ShinyHunters / Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (claimed)","summary":"Stellantis, the automaker behind Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Peugeot, confirmed in September 2025 that a third-party service provider supporting its North American customer service operations was breached and customer contact information was taken. Reporting tied the incident to the Salesforce data-theft campaign; the ShinyHunters-linked group claimed to hold around 18 million records, a figure Stellantis did not confirm.","how_it_worked":"The campaign this incident is attributed to relied on telephone social engineering rather than exploitation. Callers rang employees at the target or its outsourced customer-service provider, presented themselves as internal IT or the SaaS vendor's support team, and asked the employee to complete an app-authorisation flow in the Salesforce tenant, reading out a connection code that linked an attacker-controlled OAuth application. The abuse of trust was twofold: an authoritative internal-sounding voice and a legitimate-looking vendor consent screen. Employees believed they were resolving a support ticket. The authorised app then allowed bulk extraction of CRM contact records, followed by a private extortion email.","lessons":"Third-party contact-centre staff need the same OAuth-consent restrictions and caller-verification rules as internal employees; consent screens should not be reachable by ordinary support accounts.","confidence":"Reported","sources":[{"title":"Automaker giant Stellantis confirms data breach after Salesforce hack","url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/automaker-giant-stellantis-confirms-data-breach-after-salesforce-hack/","publisher":"BleepingComputer"},{"title":"Stellantis confirms data breach involving customers' contact information","url":"https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/stellantis-confirms-data-breach-involving-customers-contact-information-194136744.html","publisher":"Engadget"}],"entry_type":"incident","url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/incidents/2025-stellantis-confirms-customer-data-stolen-from-salesforce-platform"},{"title":"Allianz Life's Salesforce CRM emptied after social engineering","date":"2025-07-16","date_precision":"day","victim_org":"Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America","sector":"Financial Services","country":"United States","primary_vector":"Vishing (Voice Phishing)","secondary_vectors":["Help Desk Impersonation","Vendor / Supply Chain Impersonation"],"ai_involvement":"Suspected AI-enabled","ai_notes":"Allianz Life did not describe AI use; the wider ShinyHunters campaign it belonged to was documented by EclecticIQ as abusing AI voice-agent platforms for automated vishing.","outcomes":["Data Breach","Extortion","Identity Theft"],"loss_usd":null,"loss_note":"No loss figure disclosed.","records_affected":1100000,"threat_actor":"ShinyHunters (UNC6040-style Salesforce vishing), publicised via a joint Telegram channel with Scattered Spider and Lapsus$ personas","summary":"Allianz Life disclosed that on 16 July 2025 a threat actor used social engineering to reach a third-party cloud-based CRM system holding its Salesforce data, affecting the majority of its roughly 1.4 million customers plus financial professionals and select employees. Have I Been Pwned recorded 1.1 million affected individuals, and about 2.8 million records from Salesforce Accounts and Contacts tables were later leaked. Exposed fields included names, dates of birth, contact details, tax IDs and professional licence data.","how_it_worked":"Allianz Life fits the mid-2025 Salesforce pattern: a phone call to an employee from someone presenting as internal IT support, a fake Salesforce connect or login page, and an authorisation step the victim completes themselves. Because the outcome is an authorised connected app or a live session rather than a stolen password, MFA is never challenged again and the export runs through supported APIs. The crews then advertised the haul on a shared Telegram channel, using publicity as extortion pressure against a regulated insurer.","lessons":"Lock connected-app installation to administrators, monitor for anomalous bulk object exports, and treat SaaS CRM as a crown-jewel system with its own phishing-resistant access policy.","confidence":"Confirmed","sources":[{"title":"Allianz Life security breach impacted 1.1 million customers","url":"https://securityaffairs.com/181294/data-breach/allianz-life-security-breach-impacted-1-1-million-customers.html","publisher":"Security Affairs"},{"title":"Allianz Life data breach exposed the data of most of its 1.4M customers","url":"https://securityaffairs.com/180445/data-breach/allianz-life-data-breach-exposed-the-data-of-most-of-its-1-4m-customers.html","publisher":"Security Affairs"},{"title":"Social engineering attack obtains data on 'majority' of Allianz Life customers","url":"https://therecord.media/allianz-life-social-engineering-data-breach","publisher":"The Record (Recorded Future News)"},{"title":"Google Among Victims in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Campaign","url":"https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-salesforce-data-theft/","publisher":"Infosecurity Magazine"}],"entry_type":"incident","slug":"2025-allianz-life-s-salesforce-crm-emptied-after-social-engineering","year":2025,"loss_kind":null,"url":"https://global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/incidents/2025-allianz-life-s-salesforce-crm-emptied-after-social-engineering"}]}