- Nov 3, 2019
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Special Olympics of New York, a nonprofit organization focused on competitive athletes with intellectual disabilities, had its email server hacked around this year's Christmas holiday and later used to launch a phishing campaign against previous donors.
Special Olympics NY provides sports training and athletic competition to more than 67,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities across New York State (66,835 registered athletes and unified partners according to this fact sheet).
The nonprofit sent a notification to disclose the security incident to the people affected, urging the donors to disregard the last received message and explaining that the hack only affected the "communications system" that stores only contact information and no financial data.
"As you may have noticed, our email server was temporarily hacked. We have fixed the problem and send our sincerest apologies," an email notification from Special Olympics New York told donors.
Special Olympics NY provides sports training and athletic competition to more than 67,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities across New York State (66,835 registered athletes and unified partners according to this fact sheet).
The nonprofit sent a notification to disclose the security incident to the people affected, urging the donors to disregard the last received message and explaining that the hack only affected the "communications system" that stores only contact information and no financial data.
"As you may have noticed, our email server was temporarily hacked. We have fixed the problem and send our sincerest apologies," an email notification from Special Olympics New York told donors.
