FACC, an Austrian aerospace manufacturer, has fired its CEO, Walter Stephan, after losing €50million (£38.5million) in a business email compromise scam at the beginning of the year.
The scam impersonates an executive – preferably a finance one – and tricks the recipient into transferring vast sums of money into an account controlled by the hacker.
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