A church in Brunswick, Ohio was scammed out of a whopping $1.75 million as a result of a business email compromise (BEC) attack. St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, which has around 16,000 members, has been working on a massive $4 million church renovation, dubbed Vision 20/20 but attackers figured out a way to hack into the church s email system, take control of two church employee accounts and divert payments related to the project to a fraudulent account owned by them.
Source: https://threatpost.com/bec-hack-cons-catholic-church/144212/