Some Beaumont employees fall victim to phishing scam, potentially exposing patient information
DETROIT Some Beaumont employees fell victim to a phishing scam via email, which potentially exposed some patient information. The privacy and security of the personal information we maintain is of the utmost importance to Beaumont Health. We are writing to inform you of a recent data security incident that we identified and addressed that may have involved some of your information, Beaumont said in a letter released to a patient. That meant an unauthorized individual gained access to those employees email accounts. There is no evidence that the purpose of the phishing campaign was to obtain patient information and we have no evidence that any information was actually acquired or used by the unauthorized individual.
Detroit reports city employee email accounts breach; DWSD customer info could be compromised
DETROIT โ The city of Detroit announced Thursday that a handful of city employee email accounts were potentially exposed during a breach of data, possibly compromising hundreds of water department customersโ sensitive information. The Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) was able to โquickly respond and contain the breach to fewer than 10 affected accounts,โ reads a statement from the city. Some of the compromised accounts contained sensitive data belonging to city of Detroit employees, Chief Information Office Beth Niblock said. DWSD customersโ info may be compromisedThe city also said that as part of this breach sensitive information from fewer than 300 of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Departmentโs (DWSD) customers could have been compromised, too. Related: Michigan Medicine issues alert after data breach exposes personal information of patients