Kat Hall reports: A major data security breach at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment has caused the release of 40,000 members’ details to a fraudster. On Friday (May 29) the professional body for finance and investment folk held an emergency meeting concerning the release of every member’s name, email address and membership level….
Category: Phishing
Beacon Health System notifies patients after phishing attack (update2)
The following press release was issued on May 22 by Beacon Health System. Note the attempt to characterize this as a “sophisticated” attack. That’s PR-speak for “our employees fell for it.” Of note, it appears that this attack went back to November 2013. Was there any audit between then and now that could have detected…