Benjamin Hernandez reports:
A Mississippi law firm is suing its cyber insurer, alleging the carrier wrongfully denied coverage for a roughly $150,000 loss stemming from an “elaborate” email scheme.
Gore, Kilpatrick & Dambrino PLLC was duped into wiring funds to an account controlled by scammers posing as representatives from a company that was dissolved years earlier, the law firm said in a suit filed July 11 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
The firm in May 2024 received emails from someone falsely claiming to be David Casteel of Brooks Machinery Inc., seeking help collecting debt from an equipment company, the complaint said. GKD then received a fraudulent check that initially cleared but was later dishonored after the firm wired $158,850 to an account specified by the imposter.
Read more at Bloomberg Law.
- COURT: N.D. Miss.
- TRACK DOCKET: No. 4:25-cv-00107