Critical Notices

In 2020, the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse suffered a data breach. On October 13, 2021, the data compromised in the breach was posted in various hacker forums. This breach contained data...

The UMBC Department of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of spam invoking former President Trump, collectible coins, and the security-focused Telegram messaging system.  See  the...

Account data breach: LinkedIn  In April 2021, an employment-oriented online service, LinkedIn, was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later...

The Division of Information Technology( DoIT) recently received reports about a phishing email impersonating Dr. Hrabowski. Below is an example of such an email. We removed the recipient’s...

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) recently received reports of a new form of phishing campaign. This campaign informs recipients that they have “# new pending incoming emails” where #...

The Division of Information Technology( DOIT) recently received reports of a ‘file transfer’ phishing campaign. Below is an example of this phishing email. We removed the To field for privacy...

In September 2021, Thai-based English language teaching website, Ajarn, learnt that they suffered a data breach back in September 2018. This breach contained data for approximately 266 thousand...

Normally, these posts warn of various types of fraud and misdirection that try to mislead victims into giving up personal information and/or money.  The Division of Information Technology (DoIT)...

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DOIT) received multiple reports of a job phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Cheah of the Department of...

The Division of Information Technology( DoIT) recently received reports about an “account upgrade” phishing email. Below is an example of such an email. We removed the recipient’s information for...