Someone needs to go back to school: Texas district fleeced for $2.3m after staff fall for devious phishing email
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/13/texas_school_phished/
A miscreant managed to swipe $2.3m from a Texas school district after staff inadvertently wired large sums of public money to the crook's bank account.
It appears either a hacker managed to compromise systems and alter account details, or a staffer was tricked into changing the information by social engineering. In any case, so far we know that a worker fell to a phishing email, internal records were changed, and money ended up being transferred to the wrong account – a criminal's coffers.
Someone needs to go back to school: Texas district fleeced for $2.3m after staff fall for devious phishing email
Jan 13, 2020, 9:46pm UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/13/texas_school_phished/
> A miscreant managed to swipe $2.3m from a Texas school district after staff inadvertently wired large sums of public money to the crook's bank account.
> It appears either a hacker managed to compromise systems and alter account details, or a staffer was tricked into changing the information by social engineering. In any case, so far we know that a worker fell to a phishing email, internal records were changed, and money ended up being transferred to the wrong account – a criminal's coffers.