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Dark Reading: LA County Dept. of Public Health Data Breach Impacts 200K

Jun 18, 2024

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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has announced that it experienced a phishing attack between Feb. 19 and 20, in which a threat actor accessed the credentials of 53 public health employees.

The credentials were obtained through a phishing email that ultimately allowed the threat actor to compromise the personal information of more than 200,000 people. 

“The first domino to fall is very often the well-meaning employee trying to be helpful, but falling into the criminal’s trap,” Dror Liwer, co-founder of cybersecurity company Coro, wrote in an emailed statement to Dark Reading. “Older anti-phishing tools, or those embedded into the email platforms, are simply not designed to deal with sophisticated, well executed phishing attacks.”

Read the full story at Dark Reading

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Dror Liwer

Co-Founder, Coro Cybersecurity [email protected]
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