Add Akorn, Inc. to any list you maintain of organizations whose employee email accounts have been compromised.
Through their external counsel, the niche generic pharmaceutical firm notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 4 that they had discovered that four employee e-mail accounts had been comprised over the prior two months, exposing personal information on the account holders, their relatives, and some other human resources/payroll information.
UPDATE2: Steve Ragan reports that this breach is associated with an extortion attempt and it involved customer information. The letter their attorneys sent to the state involved employee data, so there may be more to this story yet – or as Steve commented to me, this is likely a separate incident.