Despite attempts to educate employees and consumers how not to fall for phishing attacks, they continue to pose a significant risk to businesses and individuals. Here are just three current news items from different sectors that all show the impact of phishing. Kristen Jordan Shamus reports: The personal information of about 33,850 Michigan Medicine patients…
Category: Phishing
FTX to give a ‘one-time’ $6M compensation to phishing victims
Jesse Coghlan reports: Cryptocurrency exchange FTX will provide around $6 million in compensation to victims of a phishing scam that allowed hackers to conduct unauthorized trades on certain FTX users’ accounts. FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried posted in a Twitter thread on Oct. 23 that the exchange generally doesn’t award compensation to its users “phished by fake versions of…
New York Department of Financial Services settles charges against EyeMed with a $4.5 million penalty and remedial cybersecurity plan
In January 2022, DataBreaches reported that New York announced a $600,000 agreement with EyeMed that resolved a 2020 phishing incident that compromised the personal information of approximately 2.1 million consumers nationwide, including 98,632 in New York. But that was not the end of enforcement action and monetary penalties for EyeMed. Now the state’s Department of…
Phishing incident may have exposed Seton patient names, clinical information
Jack Dowling reports: A vendor associated with Seton Medical Center in Harker Heights was recently the victim of a phishing incident, according to a news release from the hospital late Friday afternoon. According to the center, an unauthorized agent accessed the email accounts of two of the vendor’s employees. Read more at KDH News.
34 Deputies call on France’s Minister of Justice to Request Extradition of Sebastien Raoult to France
Although it has been out of the news cycle in the U.S., counsel for suspected ShinyHunters member Sebastien Raoult continues to urge France to seek his client’s extradition to France from Morocco. Raoult has been sitting in a Moroccan jail since May 31 when he was picked up on a red notice from Interpol at…
Revolut hit by ‘phishing’ cyberattack
Ben Martin reports: A cyberattack on Revolut has compromised the personal details of more than 50,000 people. The breach at the app-based payments company occurred last Sunday night after a Revolut employee was caught out by a phishing scam. The attack has affected 50,144 people and involved an unauthorised third-party accessing some of their details,…