KTUU reports: Approximately 25,000 students, staff, and faculty members associated with the University of Alaska were affected following a successful phishing scam and subsequent data breach late last year. The University of Alaska sent out letters to those people who had their names and accompanying social security numbers exposed to “an individual or individuals unknown…
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GA: Investigation into phishing attack at Augusta University
Miya Payton reports: Augusta University says a phishing attack hit faculty email accounts containing the health information of patients. A spokesperson for A-U confirms less than one percent of patients are impacted by the security breach. Officials say an unauthorized third party broke into the medical faculty email accounts. Read more on Fox54.
Russian Hackers Are Using Google’s Own Infrastructure to Hack Gmail Users
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Russian government hackers seem to have figured out that sometimes the best way to hack into people’s Gmail accounts is be to abuse Google’s own services. On Thursday, researchers exposed a massive Russian espionage and disinformation campaign using emails designed to trick users into giving up their passwords, a technique that’s known…
Blackburn High School families’ details illegally downloaded in targeted attack
Ebony Bowden reports: Police are investigating a major privacy breach at a Melbourne high school, which saw the personal information of families, including their phone numbers, addresses and Medicare details, published online. It’s believed a number of parents at Blackburn High School also provided their credit card details to scammers, after a phishing email masquerading as a…
W-2 Email Scam Finds More Victims in 2017
Caitlin E. Reilly reports: The number of organizations that fell prey to a recurring W-2 email scam that involved identity thieves posing as company executives rose subatantially in 2017, an Internal Revenue Service official said May 18. […] In the first four months of 2017, 870 organizations reported to the IRS that they received a…
Some 2016 phishing incidents are still first being detected
Here’s another case where a 2016 phishing incident wasn’t detected until 2017: Ice Miller LLP represents Equian, LLC and its subsidiaries, including Nurse Audit, LLC (“collectively referred to herein as “Equian”). We are writing to notify you of a security incident involving the personal information of one (1) New Hampshire resident. On or about March…