Google and Facebook have confirmed that they fell victim to an alleged $ 100m ( £77m ) scam . In March , it was reported that a Lithuanian man had been charged over an email phishing attack Attack.Phishing against `` two US-based internet companies '' that were not named at the time . They had allegedly been tricked Attack.Phishing into wiring more than $ 100m to the alleged scammer 's bank accounts . On 27 April , Fortune reported that the two victims were Facebook and Google . The man accused of being behind the scam , Evaldas Rimasauskas , 48 , allegedly posed as Attack.Phishing an Asia-based manufacturer and deceived Attack.Phishing the companies from at least 2013 until 2015 . `` Fraudulent phishing emails were sent Attack.Phishing to employees and agents of the victim companies , which regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions with [ the Asian ] company , '' the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) said in March . These emails purported to be from Attack.Phishing employees of the Asia-based firm , the DOJ alleged , and were sent from Attack.Phishing email accounts designed to look like Attack.Phishing they had come from Attack.Phishing the company , but in fact had not . The DOJ also accused Mr Rimasauskas of forging Attack.Phishing invoices , contracts and letters `` that falsely appeared Attack.Phishing to have been executed and signed by executives and agents of the victim companies '' . `` We detected this fraud against our vendor management team and promptly alerted the authorities , '' a spokeswoman for Google said in a statement . `` We recouped the funds and we 're pleased this matter is resolved . '' However , the firm did not reveal how much money it had transferred and recouped . Nor did Facebook - but a spokeswoman said : `` Facebook recovered the bulk of the funds shortly after the incident and has been cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation . ''

It is suspected that Ukrainian-based hackers took the Cockrell Hill Police Department 's server for ransom Attack.Ransom last month , resulting in the loss of video evidence . The police chief decided not to pay the ransom Attack.Ransom and instead had the server wiped , according to WFAA in Texas . The television station reported that the police chief does not believe this was a targeted attack by terrorists . Cybercriminals are thought to have casted a wide net with spam and an unsuspecting police department employee invited the malware in upon clicking on a link . According to Acronis , the latest update of the Locky crypto-ransomware variant , Osiris , is behind this attack . Acronis ’ New Generation technology that proactively prevents zero-day infections , discovered this new mutation . It currently bypasses all ( to our best knowledge ) antivirus/anti-malware software , including Windows Defender . [ Learn about top security certifications : Who they 're for , what they cost , and which you need . Accoridng to a press release , once the Cockrell Hill Police Department became aware that files on the server had been corrupted Attack.Databreach by a computer virus , they immediately disconnected the server and all computers from the internet and all state database systems and were able to contain the virus . The virus had been introduced onto the network from a spam email that had come from Attack.Phishing a cloned email address imitating Attack.Phishing a department issued email address . An internet webpage showed that if the police department paid $ 4,000 in Bitcoin , then the police department 's online contents would be released . The FBI Cybercrimes unit recommended that the police department isolate and wipe the virus from the servers . This virus affected all Microsoft Office Suite documents , such as Word documents and Excel files . In addition , all body camera video , some in-car video , some in-house surveillance video , and some photographs that were stored on the server were corrupted Attack.Databreach and were lost , the police department stated in its release . Files that were affected did go back to 2009 , however hard copies of all documents and the vast majority of the videos and photographs are still in the possession of the Police Department on CD or DVD . It is unknown at this time how many total digital copies of documents were lost , as it is also unknown how many videos or photographs that could have assisted newer cases will not be available , although the number of affected prosecutions should remain relatively small , the press release said