Corporate Deception Fraud Takes $55 Mil. Flight

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Business Email Compromise (BEC) Results in One of the Biggest Corporate Deception Losses Ever!

One of the largest corporate deception fraud losses ever reported recently surfaced when an Austrian air parts supplier stated that it had lost $55 million in “liquid funds”. Although the details have not yet been revealed, it appears that the company’s financial accounting department was likely the victim of a “whaling” attack.

In these scams, cyber criminals hijack a CEO’s email account and send fake orders to transfer company funds to a supplier. Of course, the funds end-up in the criminals’ hands.

According to the report in the Terms And Conditions blog of the Insurance Information Institute, the FBI says that BEC has resulted in losses to U.S. companies alone of over $740 million since 2013.

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