Press Release From 26 March to 27 March, Europol hosted a joint meeting of the EC3 Advisory Groups on Financial Services, Internet Security and Communication Providers, gathering 70 industry representatives to discuss the cyber-threat of phishing. Over the course of two days, global financial institutions, internet security companies and telecommunications providers shared insights into how…
Category: Phishing
Phishing incident gets Oregon.gov emails blacklisted by Microsoft, again
Colin Wood reports: Oregon state government employees on Tuesday regained the ability to email people with certain email suffixes after a state employee fell victim to a phishing attack that briefly resulted in the state being blacklisted by email services offered by Microsoft. According to an internal memo sent to agency directors by state Chief…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over UConn Health Phishing Attack
HIPAA Journal reports a development in the aftermath of a UConn Health phishing attack that was first disclosed last month: A class action lawsuit has been proposed which seeks to recover damages for patients whose protected health information (PHI) was exposed in the UConn Health phishing attack that was discovered on December 24, 2018. The…
Verity Medical Foundation discloses third incident involving access to employees’ email accounts
Oh dear. When I saw Verity Medical Foundation listed on HHS’s public breach tool this month with more than 14,000 patients impacted, I thought it might be just an updated report for the two incidents that they had disclosed in January. But no. It appears that Verity had yet another breach. Like the first two,…
Frederick Regional Health System notifies hospice patients of phishing incident
Frederick Regional Health System recently disclosed a phishing incident that compromised an undiclosed number of hospice patients’ personal and protected health information. Here is their notification, first reported by the Frederick News-Post. Frederick Regional Health System is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our…
Oregon DHS discloses breach potentially affecting 350,000 after successful phisher gained access to employees’ email accounts
KDRV reports: Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) revealed on Thursday that the private data of more than 350,000 clients may have been accessed in a massive data breach that began earlier this year. The agency said that the breach stemmed from a phishing scam that infected the emails of nine separate employees after they…