City of Ocala
October 28, 2019
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
The City of Ocala in Florida falls victim to a business email compromise scam (BEC) that ends with redirecting over $742,000 to a bank account controlled by the fraudster(s).
Kalispell Regional Healthcare
October 22, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Kalispell Regional Healthcare notifies nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been compromised after a phishing attack occurred in May 2019.
Fairfield County High School
October 10, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Attackers target students at a Fairfield County High School in a phishing scheme.
Methodist Hospitals
October 9, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Methodist Hospitals from Gary, Indiana, discloses that sensitive personal and medical information for 68,039 individuals may have been exposed following a successful phishing attack against two of its employees occurred in June 2019.
Tukwila School District
October 2, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Tukwila School District is the victim of a "phishing scam".
Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Southeastern Regional Medical Center
September 27, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Southeastern Regional Medical Center notifies of a phishing incident, potentially impacting 4,559 patients.
Magellan Health
September 17, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Magellan Health issues a statement saying two of its subsidiaries - National Imaging Associates and Magellan Healthcare - "discovered a potential data breach related to a phishing attack.
Users of Venmo mobile payment service
September 15, 2019
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The Dighton Police Department warns of a wave of phishing scams targeting users of Venmo mobile payment service with text messages that direct to a fake website.
The Guardian's SecureDrop whistleblower submission site
September 14, 2019
•[ social, phishing, technology ]
The Guardian's SecureDrop whistleblower submission site is targeted with a phishing page that attempts to harvest the unique "codenames" for sources who submitted information using the service.
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
September 6, 2019
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Toyota Boshoku Corporation announces that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million due to a business email compromise (BEC) attack.
City of Unalaska
September 5, 2019
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
The City of Unalaska recovers more than $2.3 million dollars, after wiring $2,985,406.10 to a fraudulent bank account as a result of a phishing email scam between May 15 and July 9.
Meridian Community College
September 5, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Meridian Community College notifies a phishing incident occurred in January.
UC Health
September 4, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
UC Health discloses that it is investigating a recent email phishing incident that may have involved patient information. Some e-mail accounts were accessed between July 6, 2019 and July 12, 2019.
Oregon Judicial Department
August 30, 2019
•[ social, phishing, government ]
A phishing scheme succeeds in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information of more than 6,000 people.
U.K.-based energy firm
August 30, 2019
•[ financial, social, energy ]
An insurance firm (Euler Hermes Group SA) reveals that criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a CEO's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of 220,000 ($243,000) back in March.
Capital & Coast DHB
August 27, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
A Capital & Coast DHB staff member falls victim to an email phishing scam which took thousands of emails from their address.
City of Saskatoon
August 20, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A scammer is able to successfully fool the City of Saskatoon into transferring them a little over $1 million. Part of the money is recovered though.
Portland Public Schools
August 19, 2019
•[ social, financial, phishing ]
The Portland Public Schools district falls victim of a BEC scam costing around $2.9 million (but manages to recover the stolen amount).
NCH Healthcare System
August 15, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
NCH Healthcare System discloses a phishing attack to some employees' email accounts.
Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Networks (BCN)
August 9, 2019
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Nearly 11,000 Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Networks (BCN) are notified of a potential breach of their data, after a phishing attack on two employee email accounts.
