From time to time, we have provided reminders about email problems. One problem - which we have noted - is that at a public university, your emails may be subject to public documents requests.
Another problem is that hackers may try to get into your email account through "phishing," probably to use it to send out scam messages to your contacts. Such an event seems to have occurred at UC-Davis:
Hackers compromised the email accounts of three UC Davis
doctors last month, potentially gaining access to personal or medical
information on as many as 1,800 patients, the university announced
Monday... UC Davis said the attack was a phishing scam, in which someone is sent
an email that looks legitimate. According to a statement on the health
system’s website, data security experts were unable to determine the
exact nature of the breach or whether any email messages were
specifically read. However, it said, “the automated nature of typical
phishing scams makes it unlikely that content from individual messages
was viewed. The content of patient information in the emails consisted
primarily of name, medical record number and limited information
associated with a clinic visit or hospital admission.”...
Full story at http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/27/6106308/uc-davis-health-system-emails.html
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