They steal 100 million dollars from google and facebook through phishing

Google and Facebook were victims of a phishing attack, that is, a person was impersonating a company by sending them false invoices.

As far as we know, he is a 48-year-old Lithuanian man named Evaldad Rimasuskas. This gentleman was in charge of carrying out the phirsing and obtained a loot of 100 million dollars.

What Rimasuskas did was use phishing to impersonate an Asian provider. This started in 2013, Rimasuskas created a network of fraudulent emails, voicemails and stamps, all of them posing as Quanta Computer, a technology maker who worked for Google and Facebook.

What was the hacker's idea?

The hacker's main idea was that both Google and Facebook will pay for computer equipment. Over a period of two years, the move went well and the departments of these two companies made millionaire payments to Rimasauskas, which moved the money through Eastern European accounts. Which seems to us a real disaster on the part of both companies, how could they not have realized before?

Google and Facebook recovered what was stolen?

A Google spokesman for his part stated: “ We detected this fraud perpetrated against our sales management team, quickly alerting the authorities. We have recovered the funds and we are pleased that the situation has been resolved . ” But in the case of Facebook, it is still waiting, since I only recover part of the stolen money.

What penalty does the hacker face?

Evarldad Rimasuskas faces an extradition to the United States to be tried, but the complaint that in the case of being tried in the United States his trial would not be impartial.

In this case, there are still some issues to be resolved, since both Google and Facebook had not reported anything publicly and the possibility that they should have warned their investors is being considered. From this we can draw a great conclusion , anyone can be hacked or deceived on the network and that not even the largest companies are spared.