Milwaukee Bucks Players Scammed for Financial Data, Identity. Team Says it was 'Human Error'

MILWAUKEE — Data breaches are big business for hackers and organized crime, but this latest scam drove right to the basket against the Milwaukee Bucks defense.

Yahoo Sports is reporting that an email scammer impersonated Bucks team president Peter Feigin led to a "serious security incident" in which an employee inadvertently distributed 2015 IRS W-2 documents of Bucks players.

The team notified its players Wednesday night in an email and said they were notifying the IRS and FBI about the incident.

The Bucks are calling upon the NBA and National Basketball Players Association to investigate the scam that compromised private information, league sources told The Vertical.

Yahoo Sports is reporting that information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, compensation information and dates of birth. An unknown party requested the private documents on April 26, and the Bucks ultimately discovered on May 16 that the financial forms were sent to a spoof hacker, according to the email sent to players.

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Here's the Bucks official statement on the matter:

On May 16, 2016, we discovered our company was the victim of an email spoofing attack that occurred when a request was recently made by an unknown impersonator of our president for 2015 employee W-2¹s. Unfortunately, that information was provided by an employee before it was determined that the request was made from a spoofed email address.

We take this incident, and the privacy and security of our employees, very seriously. We immediately launched an investigation, which is aggressive and ongoing. We quickly notified impacted individuals and are arranging for these individuals to have access to three years of credit monitoring and non-expiring identity restoration services. We have reported this incident to the IRS and the FBI, and will work with the authorities to continue our investigation and response to this incident. We believe this incident arose as a result of human error, and are providing additional privacy training to our staff and implementing additional preventative measures.