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False Alarm

Articles Steve Mar, CFSA, CISA Aug 08, 2022

Hackers posing as law enforcement are using emergency requests to steal customer data.

Several prominent companies have unwittingly complied with fraudulent emergency data requests meant to look like official requests from law enforcement agencies. Knowing how to tell a real emergency from a fake request can help organizations prevent criminals from obtaining company data.

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Steve Mar, CFSA, CISA

Steve Mar is a part-time professor in the Albers School of Busi­ness and Economics at Seattle Uni­versity and a cyber­security and tech­nology audit consultant for ITK in Honolulu.


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