In its recent biannual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec warns that although the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has significantly advanced in curtailing the volume of phishing and spam attacks, the region in totality, and Saudi Arabia in particular, seems to face a greater threat from organized, international groups of online criminals, as reported by ArabianBusiness on April 15, 2008.

Utah University students, staff and faculty members got e-mail on April 17, 2008, claiming to come from the university office and asking for personal information, including account number.

Phishing is widely used technique of criminals to extract personal information, like user names, credit card number, and passwords of a mail recipient by disguising in the cloak of a reliable entity.

According to Marshal's TRACE Team, a malicious spam outbreak is being triggered from the Srizbi botnet that has been identified to send the largest amount of spam and to account for 45% of the total spam caught on the Internet.

A Raleigh lawyer faces charges of hacking into the official e-mail account belonging to her ex-boyfriend, a senior Wake official, some 1,400 times or more between August and December 2007.

Christina Paulette Medlin, 31, faces legal charges on one count of committing severe crime of tapping government computers. According to her lawyer, the e-mail account was that of Joseph K. Durham, the Deputy County Manager.

User data lost from Auction.co.kr has been posted on the Chinese Websites and made available for sale, raising concerns over possible damage from spam mail or voice phishing. According to South Korea's principal police officials, a theft occurred on the personal data of 10.81 Million users from the well-known Internet shopping site hosted in Korea, as reported by Donga on April 21, 2008.