{"id":62223,"date":"2020-05-13T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=62223"},"modified":"2020-05-13T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:58:17","slug":"magellan-health-attack-due-to-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/magellan-health-attack-due-to-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Magellan Health Attack Due To Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Posing As A Customer To Hack The System<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Magellan Health, based in Arizona, reported an infiltration of their systems they discovered on April 11th. The hack happened 5 days earlier when a socially engineered phishing attempt impersonated a Magellan client. Magellan is using a third party cybersecurity forensics firm to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hackers first copied and stole sensitive and personal employee data before launching a ransomware attack. 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