Juha Saarinen reports: Beware malware-laden missives. Email filtering company Mailguard is warning about an active phishing campaign emanating from compromised email accounts hosted on Optus’ optusnet.com.au domain. The messages purport to be advice recipients of remittance advices, invoices and insurance documents that are available for download. Should users click on the links to the documents…
Category: Phishing
Hackers targeted universities with phishing attacks
The FBI has published more about a case that was previously reported on this site (the DOJ’s press release at the time can be found here). Today, the FBI wrote: Two men who were citizens of Nigeria, living in Malaysia, and conducting their crimes from behind computers likely assumed they were safe from the reach…
SC: Roper St. Francis notifying patients after employees fall for phishing attack
Roper St. Francis posted the following notice on their web site on January 29: Roper St. Francis Healthcare values the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident that may have involved some of your information. On November 30, 2018, we learned that an unauthorized actor may have…
IN: Thousands Of Patients’ Information Compromised In Data Breach
Sierra Hignite reports: A data breach at Valley Professionals Health Care may have affected all seven of its health care locations, including their mobile site. Plus, personal information from thousands of patients has been compromised. It started when an employee received an email in late November that they believed to be from another health care organization…
ANA Suffers Phishing Attack, Possible Theft Of Data
Wendy Davis reports: The Association of National Advertisers suffered a phishing attack last year that may have resulted in the theft of employee data, including names and social security numbers, MediaPost has learned. The ANA said in a January 24 letter to former employees that it learned last October of a “possible data security incident.”…
Verity Health System of California, Inc. and Verity Medical Foundation Notify Individuals and Regulatory Bodies of Data Security Incident
From their public notification: [El Segundo, CA, January 25, 2019] – Although there is no evidence of the unauthorized access or use of individual health or personal information, Verity Health System of California, Inc. and Verity Medical Foundation (collectively “Verity”) are notifying potentially affected individuals that some of their personal information may have been accessed…