Sara Schilling reports: Chaplaincy Health Care is offering free identity protection and credit monitoring to more than 1,000 people after a privacy breach. An employee’s email login credentials were compromised through an apparent phishing scheme. Read more on Tri-City Herald.
Category: Phishing
KS: Wichita State U. employees fall victim to phishing scam, lose paychecks
Suzanne Perez Tobias reports: At least three employees of Wichita State University did not receive their paychecks recently after they were targeted by computer hackers. The employees were victims of an e-mail phishing scheme, which asked them to type in their university ID number and password, allowing scammers to access bank account numbers, student records…
Privacy breach at Family Physicians Group may have affected 8,400 Orlando patients
Naseem S. Miller reports: Family Physicians Group, a large practice in Orlando that was recently acquired by Humana, is notifying more than 8,000 patients about a privacy breach that may have compromised their personal health information. The breach occurred due to a phishing attack on an employee’s email account, the company said in a news release…
UT: Westminster College notifies individuals following phishing attack
Earlier today, I reported that the College of Eastern Idaho was notifying people of a breach after four employees fell prey to a phishing attack. Now here we are, a few hours later, and I’m reporting that Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah is notifying people after eleven of their employees fell prey to phishing attacks. Although the…
Another day, another EDU sector breach as employees continue to fall for phishing attacks
From a notification template submitted by the College of Eastern Idaho to the Montana Attorney General’s Office: College of Eastern Idaho (“CEI”), formerly Eastern Idaho Technical College, recently discovered an incident that may affect the security of your personal information. We write to provide you with information about the incident, steps we are taking in…
Hackers Steal Thousands Of Files From M&A Giant Evercore
Tyler Durden reports: We break from tonight’s episode of “Powell in turmoil” to let you know that an “unknown” hacker appears to have inside info on a substantial portion of the global pipeline of upcoming M&A deals. According to The Times, thousands of “sensitive documents” have been stolen by hackers in a cyber-attack on M&A and…