Annapolis Library Computers Infected with Emotet, Almost 5K Customers Affected

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Almost 600 staff and public library computers Anne Arundel County Public Library computers were infected with the self-propagating Emotet banking Trojan, with nearly 5,000 customers who used the public computers possibly affected by the breach.

As officials of the Annapolis, MD, library say in their press release, the data breach occurred on September 17, and the Emotet banking Trojan was discovered on some library computers on October 4.
The attack was detected after some library employees started receiving a noticeably more substantial amount of spam e-mails on their library accounts during late September, followed by library staff computers rebooting on their own, with public machines soon being affected by this issue too.
As explained in the library's breach disclosure note, no customer information stored on the library's database leaked, however, patrons who used the public library computers are advised to take precautions if they typed in their credit card information or entered their social security number on any of the affected machines.

Source: https://news.softpedia.com/news/annapoli...3119.shtml