Myers Reece reports: Beginning today, Kalispell Regional Healthcare is mailing out letters to nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been involved in a data breach over the summer. Patients’ personal information may have included their name, address, medical record number, date of birth, telephone number, email address, medical history and treatment information,...
Zak Failla reports: Hackers have targeted students at a Fairfield County High School in a recent phishing scheme that came to light. Several students have received questionable emails that stated their accounts had been hacked. In reality, the accounts were fine and the messages were phishing emails by opportunistic scammers. Read more on Westport...
HealthIT Security also reports a breach at Methodist Hospital. There are many hospitals with “Methodist” in their name, so to be clear: this incident involved Methodist Hospitals in Indiana. Two employees of the Methodist Hospitals fell victim to phishing scams, which potentially compromised the data of about 68,039 patients. In June, officials said they...
One of the victim companies of a W-2 phishing attack that this site reported in 2017 was a New York firm called Taconic Biocences. A copy of their notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is still available online, here. Recently, News10 in New York reported that there has been a $2.7 million settlement...
Hook, line and sinker: How I fell victim to phishing attacks – again and again