A coordinated attack on Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee in the past month may have compromised a database full of over a thousand names, social security numbers and birth dates. The lab announced news of the hacking on Thursday, calling it a “sophisticated cyber attack.”
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the lab’s staff were blanketed with “phishing” e-mails, which bait people into giving up sensitive information like passwords by appearing to come from a legitimate institution. Both the Federal Trade Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were faked in 12,000 e-mails sent to ORNL employees.
