If you’re one of the 47 thousand members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) whose names and email addresses were accidentally disclosed to a criminal third party, you might be wondering what you can do about it. The first thing you need to do is to try and understand what happened and what the risks are to you. The NZNO yesterday notified our Office – as we would expect – that it had fallen victim to a spear phishing scam. An NZNO staff member received an email purportedly from its chief executive asking for names and contact details of all its members. Unfortunately, these details were sent to that email address before it became clear the request was fraudulent. The information lost consisted of the first names, surnames and the email addresses of all its members.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Databreaches.net
