PYMNTS’ Daily Data Dive: Email Hacker Takes $100M

By  |  March 27, 2017
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    The U.S. Department of Justice just announced it has caught an email hacker who made away with a small fortune redhanded.

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    $100 million | Amount of money stolen from hacker

    2 | U.S. businesses hacked in this case

    45 percent | Increase of business email compromise attacks in Q4 2016

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    45,000 | Number of email attacks examined by just Proofpoint between July and December 2016

    $3.1 billion | Total amount stolen via BEC attacks since 2013


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