Manhattan couple sues lawyer for allegedly neglecting to protect them from hackers who stole $1.9M

From New York Daily News authored by John Marzulli:

“A Manhattan investment banker and his wife are suing their lawyer, whose email account was hacked, causing the couple to wire a $1.9 million down payment to an account controlled by cyber crooks.

Robert and Bethany Millard learned of the scam before their lawyer did, and were able to recover all but $196,000 of their transferred funds.

But the Millards allege that Long Island real estate lawyer Patricia Doran was computer negligent in failing to protect her email account from hackers.”

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