{"id":55658,"date":"2016-12-19T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=55658"},"modified":"2016-12-19T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:30:37","slug":"756k-californians-impacted-phishing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/756k-californians-impacted-phishing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Scam Exposes 756K Californian&#8217;s Personal Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Phishing scam infects LA County offices, revealing thousands of files.<\/h4>\n<p>A recent breach of several LA County offices led to over 750,000 personal files being leaked to Nigerian hacker, Austin Kelvin Onaghinor.\u00a0 The report, made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3151098\/security\/phishing-email-scams-108-government-employees-756-000-people-affected-by-breach.html?idg_eid=11713482aef4550484a1c58c027bab60&amp;token=%23tk.CSONLE_nlt_cso_salted_hash_2016-12-19&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=CSO%20Salted%20Hash%202016-12-19&amp;utm_term=cso_salted_hash#tk.CSO_nlt_cso_salted_hash_2016-12-19\">CSO Online<\/a>,\u00a0stated a warrant has been placed for the hacker who is allegedly responsible for the phishing scam.<\/p>\n<p>The breach occurred after 108 various government employees opened phishing emails.\u00a0 The content of the emails is unknown at this time.\u00a0 However, it is believed they could be\u00a0a part of the phishing\u00a0scam that hit LA County earlier\u00a0this year.\u00a0 A few of the departments impacted by the breach were the probation office, Child and Family Services, and\u00a0Child Support Services.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if the information obtained by the hacker is being sold on the dark market.\u00a0 This information includes names, addresses, birthdates, and also social security numbers.\u00a0 The county is currently offering all impacted citizens free credit monitoring services for a year.\u00a0 The county also reported implementing additional controls to mitigate the risks of future phishing attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing scam infects LA County offices, revealing thousands of files. A recent breach of several LA County offices led to over 750,000 personal files being leaked to Nigerian hacker, Austin Kelvin Onaghinor.\u00a0 The report, made by CSO Online,\u00a0stated a warrant has been placed for the hacker who is allegedly responsible for the phishing scam. 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