The Day reports: A Nigerian citizen who was living in Smyrna, Ga., was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately 10 months of imprisonment, time he had already served, for his role in a scheme to obtain the personal identifying information of school employees in Groton and elsewhere. Olukayode Ibrahim Lawal,…
Category: Phishing
Florida Keys Community College Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
From their press release. KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Florida Keys Community College (the “College”) is taking action after discovering that it became the target of a phishing email campaign that compromised several employee email account credentials. What Happened? On October 19, 2018 Florida Keys Community College (the “College”) learned of suspicious activity…
UConn Health: 326,000 could be impacted by recent phishing attack
Matt Pilon reports: UConn Health on Friday disclosed that an unauthorized third party had accessed employee email accounts, potentially breaching the privacy of 326,000 patients and others. Of that number, 1,500 could have had their social security numbers exposed, UConn Health said. For others, potentially acquired details include names, dates of birth, addresses, and billing…
Centinela Valley Union High School District notifies employees of W-2 phishing incident
Ding! Ding! Ding! I think we have our first W-2 phishing report of this year, although of course I may have missed other ones. This one involves the Centinela Valley Union High School District in California. From their notification to the state: As a follow up to the email sent to you on January 31, 2019,…
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport phishing incident exposed 30,000 patients’ information
Anita Lee reports: Memorial Hospital is offering free credit monitoring and identify protection services to a “limited number” of patients whose Social Security numbers, health-insurance information and other personal details were part of an employee email account that a third party accessed. Janet Stuart, the hospital’s manager of marketing and communications, said the email account…
AU: Phishers compromise Optus email accounts
Juha Saarinen reports: Beware malware-laden missives. Email filtering company Mailguard is warning about an active phishing campaign emanating from compromised email accounts hosted on Optus’ optusnet.com.au domain. The messages purport to be advice recipients of remittance advices, invoices and insurance documents that are available for download. Should users click on the links to the documents…