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3738100 - Phishing Mails sent from mail.sap.com

Symptom

  • Customer reporting a suspicious email with a Subject Title included SAP Successfactors. 
  • Customer that report the incident explains that they received the suspicious email from "mail.sap.com" domain
  • Example email subject "Your updated tax form is ready in SAP SuccessFactors"

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Environment

SAP Successfactors HCM Suite 

Resolution

  • The emails in question were sent from an external account managed by a third-party provider, which was misused by an unauthorized party. While the messages were made to appear as if they were from SAP, they did not originate from SAP systems.
  • We’d like to reassure you that SAP systems, infrastructure, and user credentials were not affected, and there was no unauthorized access to any internal environments.

See Also

refer to: Phishing (general guidance)

Keywords

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Product

SAP SuccessFactors Platform all versions