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The fake email that started it all: 'Action required, payroll'

A single click on a Tuesday is now the working theory of investigators.

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The entire Wicked Bank breach may trace back to a single email with the subject line "Action required: payroll," opened on Tuesday 3 June.

Investigators at High Tech Inc believe the attachment harvested the credentials later used to authorise the transfers. "One click on a Tuesday," one source said. "That's the whole story."