Politie reports: On Tuesday 10 September, a 19-year-old man from Amersfoort was arrested on suspicion of phishing. The suspect had already been convicted three times for committing similar acts. 1 cent fraud Earlier this year, the police received a report from a bank. This bank found that several customers had fallen victim to phishing in…
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Atrium apologizes after employees fall for phishing attack; patient info may have been exposed
Chase Jordan reports: Atrium Health is apologizing publicly and notifying patients who may have been impacted by a malicious email sent to employees in April, the company announced Friday. Social Security numbers may have been among the personal information exposed to the criminals, Atrium said. An unauthorized third party gained access to a group of…
Australian Cancer Research Foundation informs donors of ‘data security incident’
David Hollingworth reports: The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) sent an email to its donors late on Friday afternoon, 30 August, warning them of a “data security incident”. According to the email, shared with Cyber Daily by an ACRF donor, a malicious actor was able to access the charity’s network via a compromised email account….
Scammers hack animal rescue sites to get your personal information and money — beware!
Bosque Animal Rescue Kennels (BARK) is trying to alert people after their website was hacked and scammers started posting pictures of purebred puppies available for adoption. If people were interested, they would fill out an adoption application with their personal information, but that information went not to the rescue center, but to the scammers, as…
Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents’ personal info
Hannah Fry reports: The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after a hacker used a phishing email to steal the login credentials of 53 public health employees, the county announced Friday. Details that were possibly accessed in the February data breach include the first and last names,…
Davis County high school students are hacking the hackers behind phishing schemes
Don Brinkerhoff reports: A group of high school juniors in Davis County are hacking the hackers to protect phishing victims. “All my friends and peers around me got hacked,” said Charles Mortensen a Davis County student. Mortensen said in one case, a friend who’s in foster care had her Instagram account hacked. That was the…