Cybersecurity incident — 2019-10-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Medical)
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

UAB Medical is hit by a phishing attack occurred on August 7th, 2019, which targeted the payroll department. The attackers gained access to numerous employee emails containing the health information for 19,557 patients.