Shark Tank star, Barbara Corcoran, wired & lost nearly $400,000 to a hacker in an elaborate email scam that tricked her staff. Corcoran said someone “acting” as her assistant sent an invoice to her bookkeeper earlier this week for a renovation payment. Corcoran is a large investor in the real estate, so when her assistant requested a wire for $388,700, it seemed business as usual.
Unfortunately for the Shark Tank star, the email address requesting the wire didn’t belong to her assistant, it belonged to a hacker! The scammer had changed one letter in the assistant’s actual email address, tricking everyone involved. Corcoran’s response to the attack, “I was upset at first, but then remembered it was only money.” If Corcoran had a quality cyber insurance policy, this claim could have been covered…
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