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If you’ve been sent bank details by email, be warned | Money | The Guardian

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I had asked my financial adviser at Brewin Dolphin for the relevant bank details and he sent them by email.

From If you’ve been sent bank details by email, be warned | Money | The Guardian.

This is dumb, pure and simple. If someone sends you sensitive personal information using unencrypted e-mail then you must assume that they are at best reckless and at worst utterly uninformed. What the financial adviser at Brewin Dolphin should have done, of course, is refuse to engage in such absurdly risky behaviour and asked the customer to contact them using a secure messaging application (eg, Signal).

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