Alex Pearce of Ellis & Winters LLP writes: As we have explored before, a common scam known as “W-2 phishing” can put companies in the crosshairs for data-breach lawsuits brought by their employees. In honor of Tax Day, today’s post examines an interesting recent decision from a North Carolina federal court in one of these…
Category: Phishing
UnityPoint Health notifying patients of phishing attack
On February 15, 2018, UnityPoint Health discovered our email system was the victim of a phishing attack that compromised some employee email accounts. UnityPoint Health promptly took action to secure the impacted email accounts, changed passwords, and engaged external cybersecurity professionals to analyze what information might have been contained in the impacted accounts. After a…
NC: Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging notifies 800 patients of phishing incident in 2017
From their notice: Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging, LLC (or “DRI”) operates multiple imaging facilities in Greensboro, North Carolina under the names Greensboro Imaging and The Breast Center of Greensboro. On January 31, 2018, DRI became aware of an impermissible disclosure of limited health information about approximately 800 patients. An investigation revealed that on November 11,…
CareFirst phishing attack could affect 6,800 members
Morgan Eichensehr reports: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland’s largest health insurer, has been the victim of a “phishing” email attack that potentially affected 6,800 of its members. This breach comes about three years after CareFirst weathered another cyberattack that affected more than 1 million of its members. The Baltimore company has 75 percent market share in the…
20 hackers arrested in EUR 1 million bank phishing scam
A two-year long cybercrime investigation between the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with the support of Europol, its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Eurojust, has led to the arrest of 20 suspects in a series of coordinated raids on 28 March. 9 individuals in Romania and 11 in Italy remain in…
India: 1,020 bank accounts were used for phishing attacks
PTI reports that fraudsters used more than 1,000 bank accounts as part of a phishing scheme: “As per the details shared by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), complaints were received regarding e-wallet scam involving 1,020 bank accounts in 351 bank branches of public and private sector banks (13 banks),” Minister of State for Electronics and…