
Save the Children Foundation has revealed that the charity was targeted by fraudsters last year, leading to the loss of $1 million. The US arm of the non-profit said that con artists managed to compromise an employee’s email account in order to masquerade as the staff member in question.
Once access was gained to the account, the hackers behind the scam created a number of false invoices and related documents which described a need to purchase solar panels for health centers located in Pakistan. The Connecticut-based charity organization fell for the ruse, conducted in May 2017, and approved the transfer of close to $1 million.
Read more about how Save the Children Foundation was scammed on ZDNet.