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Social Engineering Attacks are the most common form of cyber-attacks as it mainly deals with manipulating users over online by sending different text messages, links and files over the Internet. The hacker will wait for the user to make a mistake by clicking them and gains access, steals the data accordingly (Conklin, White, Williams, Davis, & Cothren, 2010). One of the examples of Social Engineering victim is the Ubiquiti Networks Company related to computer networking Industry operates from the United States. In the year 2015, the company had lost about $46.7 million due to the phishing attack by the hackers who mainly targeted the employees, managers by impersonating them and making fake messages and requests through emails (Hackett, 2015). The phishing worked well for the hackers and they were able to transfer the money into their accounts by gaining the access whenever the manager or employees access the fake messages. It made a huge impact on the company as they were only able to recover only $8.1 million.