CFO opened phishing email link that cost his company $1.8 million

Synopsis

In December 2014, BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, suffered a significant financial loss due to a sophisticated phishing attack. The attacker, posing as BTC Media CEO David Bailey, whose computer had been previously compromised, targeted BitPay's ...

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