Breaches and incidents
Aliquippa and Duquesne police departments (Pennsylvania): police chiefs’ email accounts hijacked to send phishing
Aliquippa police said an email account “belonging to Chief Lane” was compromised and “the chief did not personally send the fraudulent messages” (WPXI via...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- Aliquippa police said an email account “belonging to Chief Lane” was compromised and “the chief did not personally send the fraudulent messages” (WPXI via Yahoo); Hoodline, citing WTAE, quotes the lure “Please take a moment to review the attached when you can.” Per Hoodline citing WTAE, Duquesne Chief Tom Shaw’s account sent an identical email and “received thousands of replies before the breach was recognized.”
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- Aliquippa told recipients not to reply, click links, “open any attachments, or provide any personal or financial information,” and asked people not to phone just to check emails.