False emails made Thorco Projects pay hacker

Thorco Projects, owned by the Stadil family, was tricked by a hacker last year who had taken over a well-known customer's email identity. The shipping company had to go to court to get the money back from the bank.

Thorco Projects is owned by Thornico, which has Christian Stadil (left) as CEO and owner and Thor Stadil as chairman. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Søren Refner

BY NIKLAS KRIGSLUND

Published: 30.04.18 at 12:33

The Stadil family's shipping company Thorco Projects paid a bill of USD 81,500 to a hacker last year who posed as one of the company's well-known business connections in a series of bogus emails.

During a week's worth of correspondence, the hacker lured Thorco Projects to transfer the money to a US bank account before the shipping company discovered that the mails were fraudulent.