All it took was one click, an unfortunate click, to plunge the André Laurent company into turmoil for a few days, in November 2023. “One of our employees, inadvertently, opened a fraudulent email which aimed to steal all her money. professional address book", says Jean-Jacques Laurent, the president of this family SME specializing in bolts and screws near Saint-Étienne (Loire).
The hacker immediately used it to send undue invoices to around fifteen of the company's customers.
Fortunately, the scam stopped there.
After a first hack in 2020, the little Thumb of mechanical assembly had in fact adopted a certain number of protection measures: a password vault – system which stores personal authentication information for different applications, securely and in encrypted form –, a remote backup server and a data encryption tool.
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