An Edmonton university was defrauded of $11.8 million after staff failed to call one of its vendors to verify whether emails requesting a change in banking information were legitimate.

MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta has confirmed that it lost 11.8 million Canadian dollars (US $9.5 million) after falling victim to a phishing attack. In a statement released Thursday ...

The email didn’t just seem innocent, it also seemed familiar to the accounts payable employee at MacEwan University in Edmonton. It was from one of the local construction firms the public ...

It began with a series of fraudulent emails that convinced staff at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, to change electronic banking information for one of the university’s major vendors.