CORRECTION: I don’t know how I did it, but instead of typing 42,000, I kept typing 92,000 when I originally wrote this one up. The number of patients affected was 41,948, as it said at the bottom of the post. My apologies to CTCA. Another phishing incident where an employee’s email account was storing a…
Category: Phishing
900+ residents’ information compromised in Town of Christiansburg data security breach
WDBJ in Virginia reports: The town of Christiansburg is offering free credit monitoring to more than 900 people after their information was compromised in a phishing scam. The scam targeted email accounts of three town employees which contained personally identifiable information from some members of the public, the town said in a news release. There…
Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta notifies 7,012 patients after phishing attack
Another day, another successful phishing attack in the healthcare sector. From the web site of Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta: Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (“GSO”) was a recent victim of an email “phishing” scam that resulted in unauthorized access to an employee’s email account. “Phishing” involves scammers sending emails that look legitimate,…
TN: Unauthorized users could have accessed private information of 7,700 people following ETSU breach
Jordan Moore reports: A data breach impacting employees at East Tennessee State University remains under investigation. University officials tell News Channel 11 that two unidentified employees clicked on a link in the phishing scam that was sent to their e-mail accounts. ETSU Spokesperson, Joe Smith, elaborated on that phishing scam e-mail Monday afternoon. Read more…
Heads up, folks
Fake Black Friday apps and websites are now out in full force.
New York Oncology Hematology notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after phishing attack
Albany-based New York Oncology Hematology is notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after discovering that 14 employees fell prey to phishing attacks in April. Although forensic invesgtigation did not find any clear evidence that attackers accessed employee or patient data in the employees’ email accounts, NYOH decided to notify everyone. As part of their web…