KYB out $80K due to fraudulent email

<p>A hacked email account cost KYB Americas Corp. more than $81,000.</p><p>The loss stems from an email appearing to have been sent by an employee at KYB’s car part manufacturing plant in Franklin, which the company believes is the result of a hacking, according to a Franklin Police Department report. </p><p>KYB’s attorney told police fraudulent emails were sent to at least two clients claiming that the company’s bank account information had changed, which prompted one client to send money to a bank account not associated with KYB, the report said. </p><p>That client sent the money to a Chase Bank account attached to the email, but not to KYB, according to the report. </p><p>Police reached out to Chase Bank for information about the fraudulent account, but the bank referred them to its security department, the report said. </p><p>No arrest has been made and the case is still under investigation.</p>