How not to fall prey to a cyber attack
Pillow May chartered accountant fell prey to the actions of a hacker over the summer. Jessica Pillow, managing director, explains how to avoid the same fate.
I was boarding a boat from Vienna to Slovakia for a summer holiday tour of the Danube 
My team member had been receiving emails, in the normal style, asking her to pay supplier invoices for one of our clients for whom we perform bookkeeping services. The team member paid the suppliers despite them being new and the payment amounts being over the normal prescribed maximum payment amount, which meant it had to be split in two. She did check that she should be splitting the payment due to the payment limit, but by email, which of course went to the fraudster rather than the client.
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