Fake phone numbers inserted into Bank of America and other sites
An attack inserting fake phone numbers targeted Bank of America, Netflix and Microsoft. The specific scale of the damage and the response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Bank of America
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Insertion of fake phone numbers through hacking
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- An attack inserting fake phone numbers targeting Bank of America, Netflix and Microsoft was reported.
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