Yes, another phishing scheme, but this one was partially foiled by a sharp employee. Nick McCrea reports: A March data breach at School Administrative District 4 has affected at least 55 employees, according to the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department. […] In late March, a district payroll employee received an email that appeared to be from Superintendent…
Category: Phishing
Was an Alpha Payroll Services employee cruelly fired?
Over on Salted Hash, Steve Ragan commented on the Alpha Payroll Services phishing incident, first reported on Daily Dot. The premise of his article appears to be that the employee who was fired was a victim, too. Steve writes, in part: The employee, victimized by the same person who later victimized Alpha Payroll clients, was fired because…
“Large number of” Brunswick Corporation employees being notified of W-2 data breach
Another day, another phishing for W-2 incident. WFRV reports that Mercury Marine issued a press release today stating that its parent company, Brunswick Corporation, had been a victim of an email phishing scam. Brunswick, who had more than 13,000 employees globally in 2015, issued the following statement today: Brunswick Corporation today reported it has been the victim of an email phishing incident…
Payroll vendor employee falls for phishing scam, all clients’ W-2 data involved
It is bad enough when an employee falls for a phishing scheme that exposes fellow employees’ W-2 information. It is downright painful when an employee of a payroll services vendor falls for a scam and emails every clients’ W-2 data to criminals. Sadly, that is what happened to Alpha Payroll Services LLC. Read my story on Daily Dot.
Thousands of taxpayers affected by W-2 Phishing attacks this year
Salted Hash reports: In the first quarter of 2016, at least 41 organizations were victimized by BEC attacks, but that number is closer to 70 when additional disclosures are counted. Some organizations were successfully hit earlier in the year, but only just recently discovered the problem, delaying notification. Read more on Salted Hash. The numbers are…
Two more colleges report compromise of employee W-2 info
Two more colleges have reported breaches involving employee W-2 data. I’m late picking the first one up, but it seems Allegheny College employees reported problems when filing taxes. On April 14, Angela Mauroni reported that at least 74 non-student employees of the Pennsylvania college had reported such problems. The college believes the information was accessed through the hacking…