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Health Quest phishing incident in 2018 results in notification to patients, but why such a long delay?

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Dissent

Today’s Poughkeepsie Journal has a news story about a phishing incident that appears to have been discovered in July, 2018 that affected an unspecified number of Health Quest patients. From the available information, it sounds like Health Quest first discovered email attachments in January, 2019, and then it took them until April 2, 2019 to…

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Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Dissent

Paul Kunert reports: The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams. The company, one of Europe’s largest resellers, counts some of the biggest names in financial services among its corporate client base, and sells to a raft of local…

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Legal Threats Make Powerful Phishing Lures

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the attached file and respond within a few days — or else. Here’s a look at a recent…

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Cancer Treatment Centers of America notifies patients after phishing attack on employee email account

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Dissent

Cancer Treatment Centers of America has been sending notification letters to patients whose protected health information was in an employee email account that was compromised by a phishing attack.  The employee works at the Southeastern Regional Medical Center. The attack took place on March 10, 2019, and the attacker was potentially able to access the…

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Equitas Health notifies 569 members after discovering two employee email accounts had been compromised

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Dissent

Equitas Health, Inc. (“Equitas Health”) learned that it was the victim of a data incident and is notifying individuals whose information may have been affected.  On January 8, 2019, Equitas Health became aware of unusual activity within an employee’s email account.  Equitas Health conducted an internal investigation which revealed that an unauthorized individual had access…

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Oregon Health Authority provides early notification to Oregon State Hospital patients of a phishing incident

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dissent

I realize that some will fault the entity for making early notification before they have all the facts, but my hat is off to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).  On May 6, they suffered – and quickly stopped – a successful spear-phishing attack that gave the attacker access to one employee’s mail account. That account…

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