AP reports: Puerto Rico’s government has lost more than $2.6 million by falling for an email phishing scam, a senior official said Wednesday. The finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, Rubén Rivera, said in a complaint filed with police Wednesday that the agency sent the money to a fraudulent account. Read more on…
Category: Phishing
Golden Entertainment addresses data breach
Casino Beats reports: Golden Entertainment has notified customers, employees, and vendors of an incident involving unauthorised access to employee’ email accounts. […] The investigation undertaken by Golden Entertainment led to the finding that access was obtained to the email accounts multiple times between 30 May 2019 and 6 October 2019. Despite the findings in regards to…
Phishing scam targets St. Louis Community College; private information exposed
Kevin S. Held reports: More than 5,100 St. Louis Community College students and employees had their personal information accessed via a phishing scam. The data breach was discovered on January 13, according to a spokesperson for the college. Cybercriminals targeted employees and students through “a series of email phishing attacks” which ultimately gave them access…
Data breach potentially exposes Eastern Virginia Medical School employees’ bank accounts
Elisha Sauers reports: Eastern Virginia Medical School is trying to beef up its email security following a phishing scam that could have exposed employees’ personal information, including bank accounts and Social Security numbers. EVMS president and provost Richard V. Homan informed staff of the breach Monday. The school had discovered Wednesday that some files might…
VillageCareMAX & VillageCare Rehabilitative & Nursing Center Notices of Data Privacy Incident After Business Email Compromise
The following is part of the notice Village Senior Services Corporation d/b/a VillageCareMAX posted on their website. Note that the attacker was apparently requesting names and Medicaid ID numbers, which makes me wonder what the plan for misuse was — insurance fraud, perhaps? VillageCareMAX (“VCMAX”) is providing notice of an incident that may affect the…
PIH Health notifies almost 200,000 patients whose protected health information was sitting in employee email accounts that were compromised
Posted by PIH Health on their website on January 10, 2020: Notification of Data Security Incident January 10, 2020 – PIH Health has become aware of a data security incident that may have impacted personal information and protected health information belonging to certain current and former patients. On January 10, 2020, PIH Health notified potentially…