Advice firm Penguin Wealth swiftly resolves 'clever' email hack
Used company branding
"The situation was resolved by our IT immediately changing all passwords on all email accounts across the business and setting up an email to go out to as many as we could work out had it to apologise." - Craig Palfrey
Penguin Wealth’s Craig Palfrey has reassured clients after it suffered a “clever” email hack, which saw a bogus email purporting to come from him go out to all his saved contacts.
The email, which went out on Wednesday last week (4 November), used Penguin Wealth's company branding and appeared to come directly from Palfrey's work email address. However, it was a cleverly designed...
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