About four months ago in Germany....someone sent an email into the finance officer of some small company (300-400 employees) and pretended to be the CEO....had the finance officer transfer roughly a million Euro to a out-of-country bank account. A day or two later, the whole thing is figured out. Money cannot be retrieved. Put the finances of the company in serious jeopardy. Cops say it was just one of several episodes to occur like this in recent months.
Shoot I tried to put SOME security and sanity into the systems (legacy IBM and a joke of a network) of a “prairie land” branch of a small company - wound up getting cursed at by the local head honcho. And nothing but disdain from one of his idiot lieutenants.
It was insane how unprotected they were. All of their messes were because of amateurish policies, procedures and a grade-school implementation practice. I couldn’t believe there were still operations like that.