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A client (Party B) is owed money by a debtor (Party A). An invoice was sent by Party B, but their emails were hacked and the money owed to Party B was paid to the hacker (Party C). Who is at fault and can Party B recover the funds from Party A?

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Published on: 14 November 2018
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    Where a supplier (B) has emailed an invoice to A for goods supplied by B to A (and which were received by A) but the email was hacked by an unknown third party (C) and B’s bank details for payment were substituted with C’s, such that A pays C and not B, can B recover the invoice sum from A?

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    A is a customer of supplier B. Where A has mistakenly paid third party C, as a result of C having hacked into B’s records and issued an (false) invoice apparently in the name of B, but payable to C’s account, is B liable to A in damages for the money A paid to C?

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