Bengaluru: Refuting media reports that Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal`s email account has been hacked, the etailer on Friday said it was spoofed but not hacked.
"We would like to clarify it is not a case of hacking. Flipkart`s corporate email system leverages the highest standards of security including but not limited to two factor authentication," it said in a statement.
A spoofed email does not originate from the real source but from a different source falsifying the name and address with an ulterior motive.
A leading newspaper on Friday reported that Bansal`s email account was hacked and two emails were sent in his name to Flipkart`s CFO Sanjay Baweja on March 1 at 11.33 a.m., directing him to transfer USD 80,000.
The company said it filed a police report complaining on email spoofing its CEO suffered.
"We have filed a case of email spoofing which involves use of a forged email header to make it look like a legitimate email. This case of email spoofing was immediately detected and a report was filed with police," the statement added.
