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Business Email Compromise Attack Leads to Millions in Non-Profit Loss

A business email compromise attack at Illinois’s Office of the Special Deputy Receiver led to a loss of $6.85 million, Ray Long at the Chicago Tribune reports. Long describes the Office as “a nonprofit that works with the director of the Illinois Department of Insurance and exists largely to protect creditors and policyholders of financially troubled or insolvent insurance companies.”

originally published onhttps://blog.knowbe4.com/business-email-compromise-attack-leads-to-millions-in-non-profit-loss

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