Google and Facebook scammed out of $123 million by man posing as hardware vendor

Google and Facebook scammed out of $  123 million by man posing as hardware vendor

Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise.

A Lithuanian man has this week pleaded guilty to tricking Google and Facebook into transferring over $ 100 million into a bank account under his control after posing as a company that provided the internet giants with hardware for their data centers.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley