Ikoma City: an elementary school teacher fell for smishing and their personal iCloud was briefly taken over, so images showing 41 sets of staff account IDs and passwords may have been viewed
On April 24 the teacher's iCloud ID and password were stolen in smishing. The cloud held staff Google account data and pupil photos.
Disclosed
2021-05-14
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
The teacher fell for phishing by an SMS posing as a parcel delivery notice, so-called smishing, and had the ID and password of Apple's iCloud, used personally, stolen. The SMS had arrived about two weeks earlier, and the teacher entered the details because no parcel came and it was on their mind. [1]
The password was changed and the teacher could no longer access the account, which revealed the damage. [1]
Impact
Timeline
- Detected 2021-04-25
- Disclosed 2021-05-14
- 19 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Phishing]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Stolen credentials
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Critical]Nara, IkomaMunicipality
Ikoma City
Sources
- [1][News]小学校教員がフィッシング被害、クラウドにスマホ同期の業務画像 - 生駒市Security NEXT · 2021-05-14