{"id":210500,"date":"2020-10-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=210500"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:24:04","slug":"spoofing-claim-to-be-heathcare-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=210500","title":{"rendered":"Spoofing:  COVID testing results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)<strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> North Dakota Information Technology Department (NDIT) and North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) have received reports of &#8216;spoofing&#8217; attacks in which cybercriminals misrepresent themselves as a healthcare professional to extract personal information. Criminals may also be using phone number masking tools to conceal their phone numbers or to emulate the NDDoH public health hotline (866-207-2880).<\/p>\n<p>NDDoH staff will identify themselves and will <strong>never <\/strong>request sensitive personal information such as account numbers, social security numbers or access codes over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have been tested for COVID-19 and are awaiting results, keep in mind that a call from a NDDoH staff official will likely be made from a personal cell phone number as healthcare professionals are using individual phones to be more accessible to those tested.<\/p>\n<p>The State of North Dakota Cybersecurity Operations Center does not have the authority or accessibility to manage &#8216;spoofing&#8217; attempts of this type but would like to remind citizens to be aware and vigilant regarding these potential threats.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive such a call, please report it immediately to the Federal Communications Commission at <a href=\"https:\/\/consumercomplaints.fcc.gov\/hc\/en-us\/requests\/new?ticket_form_id=39744\">https:\/\/consumercomplaints.fcc.gov\/hc\/en-us\/requests\/new?ticket_form_id=39744<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) \u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota Information Technology Department (NDIT) and North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) have received reports of &#8216;spoofing&#8217; attacks in which cybercriminals misrepresent themselves as a healthcare professional to extract personal information. Criminals may also be using phone number masking tools to conceal their phone numbers or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210655,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210500\/revisions\/210655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}