An insurance representative for a company that provides cybercrime insurance to the Crawford County government gave a presentation at the March 26 county commission meeting highlighting that in the time since the county first purchased its cyber insurance policy last year, it has already had an incident that was covered by the policy.
“It was a phishing incident,” said Chris Bohrer of Wood-Dulohery Insurance, Inc., “where they had gotten in and gotten ahold of some information and locked up some different things.”
The Federal Trade Commission’s consumer information website describes phishing as “when a scammer uses fraudulent emails or texts, or copycat websites to get you to share valuable personal information – such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, or your login IDs and passwords,” that scammers then use to steal a victim’s money or identity.
Bohrer said County Counselor Jim Emerson and the county’s information technology employees handled the incident properly.
“The problem that you have though is you’re fighting the entire world,” he said, when it comes to cybercrime.
(Read more: Pittsburg, KS – Morning Sun)