According to TechCrunch, a new phishing scam targeted at the Facebook users sends a message from Facebook 'friend' claiming for creating a new account and asks them to resubmit details using the given link, as reported by m-net on March 28, 2008.

Proofpoint Inc., a vendor for solutions of loss prevention and e-mail security, announced on April 1, 2008 that the PARC (Proofpoint Attack Response Center) has observed a rise in spam to enterprises by over 50% during first quarter in 2008 along with short term peaks at around 60%.

Security experts are warning that a newly developed technology called 'knowledge-based authentication' could work as a convenient tool for hackers to capture users' online accounts.

According to Rajat Khare, Director, Appin, an IT security consulting company, India's corporate sector is facing losses by 8-10% of its overall revenue due to incidents of phishing and hacking, as reported by Financialexpress on March 30, 2008.

According to the statement published on March 31, 2008 by SCmagazine, an Internet security vendor Fortinet warned that in the last week of March, a spam campaign obtained access to the user accounts of Facebook and send messages on the Wall feature of user profiles, continuing the security threats.

Antioch University suffered multiple security breaches when a computer that held personal information belonging to approximately 70,000 people was hacked at least three times in 2007 by an unauthorized intruder, revealed the university's officials on March 28, 2008.

Google Security Researchers at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, said that too many sites, a number of which are used for economic, banking and other types of sensitive transactions, continue to be vulnerable to malware attacks. These threats typically lead to theft of customers' personal data.

On March 27, 2008, a marketing executive (36) was arrested by Mumbai crime branch's Cyber Crime Cell (CCC) from Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, India, for attracting investors through a fake Internet site of the ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group).

According to the news reported on March 31, 2008 by Hackinthebox, the chief officials of Jobs.ie, an online job agency, revealed that on March 27, 2008, CVs of the applicants submitted to their agency were downloaded through a non-Irish Web address.

The number two Web portal of Korea, Daum Communications, has been infringed but the country kept it under covers for eight long months, from July 2007 to February 2008.

Britain's leading publishing organization Reed Elsevier's division the LexisNexis Group has agreed with the Federal Trade Commission regarding information leaks that endangered the private data of innumerable Americans at its Seisint branch in Boca Raton.

A possible security breach into the Website of PlayStation Store might have compromised private information belonging to a small number of users, according to an announcement by Sony Computer Entertainment on their Websites of PlayStation US and UK, as reported by CRN on March 27, 2008.

In November 2007, police charged two graduates and six students of Fayetteville-Manlius High School of applying a keylogger to gain control of a computer system of the school to be able to steal admin passwords and alter grades. Initially, administrators feared that there might have been tampering with various records such as the SAT test marks but after investigations, it was found that the group of hackers changed only their own performance results.

Indonesia's information ministry said on March 28, 2008 that hackers compromised a government Website in the country and kept it in that state for many hours as a sign of protest against the new anti-porn law that prohibits pornography on the Internet.

Discount retailer TJX Cos. Inc. has acquiesced to enhance security of its network of computers in response to FTC's charges of lax security that allowed hackers to commit theft of credit card details of millions of customers, according to the US Federal Trade Commission as reported by REUTERS on March 27, 2008.