ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) - A Maryland county is warning residents that its executive’s distribution list was used in a phishing scam that sends emails that appear to be from Netflix.
Howard County announced that Calvin Ball’s Constant Contact was compromised Sunday, and told residents to delete emails with the subject line “Account Cancellation.” A screenshot from WMAR-TV shows that the emails appear as if they’re from Netflix but feature Ball’s county email address.
The county said Monday that an unauthorized user created three phishing campaigns associated with the account, sending emails to 35,000 recipients. About 2 percent of recipients clicked on the link. Constant Contact disabled the link attached to the emails. It also temporarily suspended the account, but it’s now back online.
Ball apologized in a statement to those who received the email.
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