MN: Thousands Potentially Affected in Pine County Data Breach
Joe Keyport reports:
Pine County says that around 4,400 people may have their data breached after a county employee had their email account accessed by unauthorized personnel.
The incident happened in June when the county’s payroll department received an email request to change the direct deposit for an employee’s paycheck, something that must be done with a hardcopy form and employee signature. Pine County’s IT department was then notified, and it was determined that the employee’s email password was compromised.
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Melanie Benjamin - October 26, 2019
You should be very careful when such a thing happens. With this information, they can try to trick you into trying to reach you by phone. Be very careful like the example on this page at [deleted by administrator — this site generally does not permit comments to link externally]