Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-17 00:00:00
Affected organization: Chase Brexton Health Care
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Chase Brexton Health Care notifies 16,562 patients after four employees fell for a phishing attack. The phishing emails were sent on August 2 and 3, and by August 4, the attackers had re-routed employees' paychecks.