Hackers visit and steal 100,000 USD, is your corporate email account still safe?

Not long ago, a message was relayed from Yantai that the corporate email of Yantai Pearl Longkou Vermicelli Co., Ltd. had been hacked, resulting in over 100,000 US dollars in loans being transferred away.

According to the general manager of Yantai Pearl Longkou Vermicelli Co., Ltd., at 2 PM on June 24th, the company's email was hacked, and relevant accounts and passwords were stolen, leading to over 100,000 US dollars being transferred into a bank account in Yiwu County, Zhejiang Province. The company reported the incident to the police station at 4 PM on the same day. Fortunately, thanks to the relentless efforts of the investigating officers, the lost over 100,000 US dollars of Pearl Company was recovered in less than three days.

This is not the first time hackers have used corporate emails to steal company funds. At the end of last year, a company in Yongkang also lost several ten thousand yuan. According to reports, when a company within the jurisdiction of Yongkang urged payment from a Dutch customer for the year-end final installment, they were informed that the payment had already been made. After verification, it was discovered that the target account to which the Dutch customer had transferred the money was not their own company. The Dutch customer stated that he had transferred the money according to the bank account provided in the email. After detailed investigation, it was finally determined that the event occurred due to the hacker infiltrating the computer system and altering the account information in the email.

Corporate email is a necessary tool for enterprise informatization. Corporate email plays a very important role in business operations, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. It helps establish and promote the corporate image. Having a corporate email with the company domain as the suffix, where all employee emails are abc@company domain, helps establish a unified corporate image and facilitates the promotion of the company’s image. Using corporate email to communicate with customers will result in strong brand promotion effects. Moreover, using a unified corporate email gives customers the impression of scale and internationalization, further enhancing the corporate image and increasing customer trust.

2. It facilitates enterprise management. Enterprises can manage employees' internal email accounts through the corporate email administrator. They can set the space, category, and group based on employees' departments and job functions, and can add or delete users according to the development of the enterprise. More importantly, when an employee leaves, the email they used can be effectively recovered, ensuring that business information within the email does not get lost with the employee’s departure.

3. Convenient mail sending and receiving. Corporate email can send and receive emails via WEB and client software methods, generally supports POP3/SMTP standard EMAIL protocols, and supports most email client programs such as Outlook and Foxmail, meeting different user habits, making the use and management of emails more convenient.

4. As an important tool for enterprise informatization communication, the security and stability of corporate email will significantly impact business activities. Corporate email service providers have professional equipment and technical teams that can ensure the maximum protection of enterprise data and business information during communication.

This is the biggest advantage of corporate email over personal email. In terms of security, stability, anti-virus, and anti-spam functions, corporate email far surpasses personal email, and there is dedicated after-sales service support, making the service quality much higher than personal email.

5. Additional features distinct from personal email. Generally, corporate email has additional features that personal email cannot guarantee. A good corporate email often helps improve office efficiency, achieving maximization of corporate interests. For example, China Nuowang's Global Mail provides efficient global email transmission, ensuring 100% delivery of overseas emails, advanced email monitoring systems to prevent leakage of important commercial information, secure encrypted transmission with almost zero data loss rate, intelligent anti-virus and anti-spam features, automatically protecting your green space.

6. Wide range of applications and low cost. Corporate email and website construction can be carried out separately. As long as you apply for a top-level domain (both domestic and international domains are acceptable), you can establish the company's email system. Some companies that do not yet need or have the conditions to build a website can still enter the stage of informatized operation in advance. Additionally, the rental fee for corporate email typically ranges from hundreds to thousands of yuan per year, suitable for a few to hundreds of employees. It is cheap and provides professional email technology and system security guarantees, making it a tool with low investment but high returns essential for enterprise development.

However, why did the incident of hackers stealing important company information and transferring 100,000 US dollars occur despite the fact that corporate email is much higher in security, stability, and anti-virus, anti-spam functions compared to personal email?

According to industry experts, network hackers' technical means are getting higher and higher, and viruses and trojans spread online are becoming increasingly difficult to guard against. To prevent similar incidents from happening again, enterprises should carefully choose safe and suitable corporate email services for enterprise development. He suggested that when choosing corporate email, one should select based on the safety, stability, and cost-effectiveness of the service. When choosing a service provider, one should choose those with high reputation, good credibility, and high social evaluation.

In addition, China Nuowang pointed out that network hackers might take advantage of website vulnerabilities to infiltrate and plant Trojan viruses to steal data. Therefore, enterprises should pay attention to timely patching of vulnerabilities and real-time updates of Trojan virus databases to block channels for hacker infiltration. Furthermore, when selecting a service provider, multiple aspects should be considered to choose the most suitable service provider for enterprise development. Author: (China Nuowang) Guangzhou Yinghu Network Development Co., Ltd. (The copyright of this article belongs to Guangzhou Yinghu Network Development Co., Ltd. If you need to reprint, do not arbitrarily delete, modify, or add advertisements. Violators will be held legally responsible; hereby declared.) National Unified Sales Hotline: 400-888-6638; National 24-hour Technical Support Hotline: 020-34121161 Online Consultation MSN: [email protected]; Online Consultation QQ: 475342018 We promise to provide you with high-quality service and free consultation 24 hours a day. Quality servers, corporate email, domain registration, independent hosting, website construction, and other products and services. Our excellent service and round-the-clock technical support will be your powerful guarantee towards success! Next Article: No next article Previous Article: No previous article