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The real estate agent we had replied with "but I don't understand why you won't email your documents, we've never had a problem using email to send sensitive documents before and we've done it hundreds of times"

We hear about leaks of user databases all the time now so I'm surprised we don't hear more about mail boxes leaking out. All these small business mail boxes must be an identity thief's dream.

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Access to small business mailboxes is used for a “neat” form of fraud; they intercept invoices and change the account details to theirs. It’s a bit of a long-ish targeted attack, but it makes the news now and then.

And the best thing is that with Office 365, you have to pay for obscenely priced license tiers to get access to logs of mailbox activity.

Wanna know if that attacker downloaded all of an inbox? You should've thought of that and paid $35.00 user/month (and that's the lower yearly commitment price) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/off...

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