KDRV reports: Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) revealed on Thursday that the private data of more than 350,000 clients may have been accessed in a massive data breach that began earlier this year. The agency said that the breach stemmed from a phishing scam that infected the emails of nine separate employees after they…
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Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency discloses data breach affecting 1,100 customers
Jennifer Larino reports: Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency, a fifth-generation New Orleans business on Canal Street, revealed Wednesday (March 20) that a data breach may have exposed personal info for roughly 1,100 customers. The breach involved basic information, including names, birthdates and driver’s license numbers, taken from the company’s insurance accounts, according to a news release….
US Healthcare institutions are vulnerable to phishing attacks: Survey
CISOMag reports on a recent survey and report, Assessment of Employee Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks at US Health Care Institutions, authored by Dr. William Gordon and colleagues. Not surprisingly, the survey found that the healthcare sector was susceptible to phishing attacks. How susceptible, you wonder? William specified that when the researchers sent simulated phishing emails,…
Carmel Unified School District notifies employees of phishing incident
Ouch. This isn’t a W-2 phishing attack, but in some ways, it seems even worse. Carmel Unified School District notified employees that a successful phishing attack had gained access to an employee’s email account that had “a limited number of documents.” Those documents may have contained employees’ or dependents’ information: Employee social security numbers Spouses’…
Algonquin College faculty union files grievance over data breach
If you’re not transparent about a breach and people cannot figure out how to protect themselves, you may be almost guaranteeing people will sue you about it or file a grievance. CBC reports: The union representing faculty at Algonquin College has filed a grievance against the school after a recent data breach. Ontario Public Service Employees…
Nigerian citizen sentenced in phishing scheme that targeted Groton schools
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,…