We appear to have had a rash of hacked emails recently. The most common reason for this is that people are clicking on attachments in the emails which then gives the hackers access to their account.
Please NEVER just click on an attachment just because you recognize the sender. Please be VERY cautious with any email you receive and unless you are expecting someone to send you something, always verify it by calling the person first.
You can normally identify a suspicious email by the language used but that is not always the case. With AI tools now, it is much easier to mimic another person so you really have to be diligent.
If there is ANY doubt at all or you are not expecting an email from that person, just DO NOT OPEN attachments. Call the person that sent it - if they didn't send it, then they need to immediately change their password and then have their tech people review their email account to see if there are settings that need fixed in it. (Often a hacker will forward all incoming emails elsewhere so they can still access them.) Delete the email in question and you should be fine.
Thank you.
