Catholic Church Loses $1.75m in BEC Hack
Return To ArticleA church in Brunswick, Ohio was scammed out of a whopping $1.75 million as a result of a business email compromise (BEC) attack.
St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, which has around 16,000 members, has been working on a massive $4 million church renovation, dubbed “Vision 20/20” – but attackers figured out a way to hack into the church’s email system, take control of two church employee accounts, and eventually divert payments related to the project to a fraudulent account owned by them.
According to local reports, the church said in a letter to parishioners over the weekend that it was notified of the issue on April 17, after the construction company behind the renovations contacted the church saying it had missed payments on the project.
