Report from Irish solicitor - Connaught
05/12/2017 17:06:00A Connaught firm was subject to an e-mail spoofing attempt in October 2017.
Date discovered: November 2017
Type: E-mail spoofing
Region: Connaught
Description: In the course of a acting for the client in a purchase they were provided with client bank account details. The deposit was requested from the client. At the last moment, the client received instructions to send the deposit to a different bank account. This e-mail appeared to come from the solicitor. The client transferred the deposit to the new bank account, which transpired to be a fraudulent account.
Client money stolen?: Yes €46,595
Able to quantify cost of attack to practice? N/A
Informed relevant authorities eg bank, police, insurers, Law Society? Yes