All our business partners provide contact information, which is normally used to resolve financial problems. We're happy to use this information as a starting point. We know this is going to take longer than we had hoped, so we send word to collect our senior management so we can brief them on the incident. We're lucky that our management team members are willing to be called early, rather than after everything is over. They accept that sometimes there will be false alarms, but even so, I hesitate to issue the request.
Nobody wants to be the boy who cried wolf.
The Culprit Suddenly, things start to look better. We've found a reception number for the company, albeit for an American office. Time is still pressing, and the log-in attempts continue thick and fast. Looking at the list of attempts, there are a few accounts on the list that aren't standard but do ring a bell. I've seen this list before.