The Academy of Art in San Francisco is trying to sort out what happened after a data breach exposed the information of thousands of employees.
San Francisco Business Times Reports
A wide-ranging security breach at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco may have compromised the credit and financial information of around 3,000 employees at the school, after the school's human resources department accidentally fell for a spoofing email.
"We are dealing with a very sophisticated, international Internet fraud and we are doing everything we can," Rebecca Delgado Rottman of the Academy of Arttold local CBS affiliate KPIX.
A spokesman for the Academy of Art, Mark Veverka, told the Business Times Thursday that although KPIX had reported that the human resources department at the school had turned over the W-2 forms electronically after receiving what they thought was a request from a senior executive at the school, the human resources department was not involved.
He declined to name which department did receive the request, which is known as a "spoofing" email.