Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A South Canterbury business has been hit by hackers who intercepted its invoices and prompted clients to deposit money into foreign bank accounts. Kerry O’Rourke, a part-owner in Pleasant Point’s O’Rourke Brothers Taxidermy, said far only one of O’Rourke’s clients has been sucked into the scam, losing “probably about €2000 ($3583) into an account”. “We first realised something was amiss with our emails when we got rung up by an English client who we were sending some mounts to. He had paid his money into an English Building Society account supposedly that we’d sent him, which we hadn’t sent him. “It probably wouldn’t be legal to do what I want to do to them. It’s a thing you can’t do anything about until its happened.” O’Rourke said his reaction was to immediately alert the rest of his overseas clients. “We got in contact with all our other foreign clients who we had invoices out to by email. Some of them have been approached (by the hackers). Our emails have been intercepted and reconstructed giving them Russian bank accounts. “So it’s a network that’s fairly global thievery,” O’Rourke said. O’Rourke said he was still to hear from some offshore clients who have […]
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