Minnesota Department of Human Services suffers a phishing attack

guest · Feb 1, 2019

Minnesota Department of Human Services suffers a phishing attack
January 31, 2019
https://cyware.com/news/minnesota-department-of-human-services-suffers-a-phishing-attack-79910faf

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has been hit badly in a phishing attack. The attack may have compromised the personal information of nearly 3,000 people.
What happened?
The attack occurred after a worker’s email was hacked in September 2018. The compromised email was later used as a channel to steal data of individuals. The state employee who received the legitimate-looking official email contained a malicious link.

[...] believes that information of 3,000 people including their names, birth dates, phone numbers, email addresses and information about child protection cases could have been breached in the incident, TwinCities reported.
The breach also exposed Social Security Number, driver’s license numbers and financial data of an additional 30 people who were using the account.
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guest · Apr 10, 2019

Hacker breached Minnesota state agency e-mail, placing data of 11,000 at risk
It's the third cyberattack against the agency in a year
April 9, 2019
http://www.startribune.com/hacker-b...ail-placing-data-of-11-000-at-risk/508333012/

The state Department of Human Services (DHS) notified lawmakers Tuesday that an employee’s e-mail account was compromised as a result of a cyberattack on or about March 26, 2018.
A hacker unlawfully logged into a state e-mail account of a DHS employee and used it to send two e-mails to one of the employee’s co-workers, asking that co-worker to pay an “invoice” by wiring money.

The agency has no evidence that personal information contained in the hacked e-mail account was “viewed, downloaded or misused in any way,” Human Services Commissioner Tony Lourey said in a letter to legislative leaders on Tuesday.

Responding to the string of cyberattacks, Minnesota IT Services in February deployed a new cybersecurity tool that blocks malicious links and attachments in e-mails intended for state employees.
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