Sorry Seagate followers, this is old stale news – Hackers Nab Seagate Employee W-2s Via Phishing Scam | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

The incident occurred on March 2, when phishers sent a Seagate employee what appeared to be a legitimate internal company note requesting the W-2 forms. The employee obliged, inadvertently sending the information to hackers.

Seagate notified federal authorities about the phishing attack, and is now offering affected employees a two-year membership for credit monitoring services, though as Krebs pointed out, that will not protect them from tax refund fraud.

“We deeply regret this mistake and we offer our sincerest apologies to everyone affected,” the company said.

“Seagate is aggressively analyzing where process changes are needed and we will implement those changes as quickly as we can.” (emphasis added)

Let me help out the management wizards at Seagate. At the very least, no financial or employee information should be sent via unenypted email ever. As an added layer of security, this data should be encrypted on any hard drive it resides on. This is not rocket science.

Amateur hour, although I feel sorry for the employee that actually sent the information.