Georgia Tech’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) has identified a “phishing” incident that occurred on November 10, 2014. The situation involved the distribution of a fraudulent email message with the subject line, “Message From Georgia Institute of Technology,” sent to members of the campus community asking recipients to click on a link and provide their Georgia Tech account username and password. While the Web page looked like the Georgia Tech login page, it was a fake version designed to capture this information.
Although OIT was able to secure Georgia Tech’s “cyber borders” within 15-30 minutes after the fraudulent message was distributed, a small number of faculty, staff, and students responded to the email sharing their usernames and passwords. In a limited number of instances, this information was then used to access personal information.
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