Tyler Durden reports:
We break from tonight’s episode of “Powell in turmoil” to let you know that an “unknown” hacker appears to have inside info on a substantial portion of the global pipeline of upcoming M&A deals. According to The Times, thousands of “sensitive documents” have been stolen by hackers in a cyber-attack on M&A and restructuring giant Evercore.
According to the report, one of the boutique bank’s junior administrators in London was the victim of a “phishing” attack – similar to the way in which John Podesta allegedly handed over control of his inbox to an unknown hacker – in which a recipient is lured into clicking on a corrupt link in an email. The hackers gained access to her inbox, leading to the theft of 160,000 “data objects” such as diary invitations, documents and emails. It is likely that among the tens of thousands of stolen objects was confidential data on the countless merger deals the company is currently working on.
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