Facebook and Google were conned out of $100m in phishing scheme

Not even two of the biggest US technology firms are safe from fraud, as the social network and the search company named as victims of sophisticated attack

Google and Facebook were phished for over $100m, it has been reported, proving not even the biggest technology companies in the world are immune from the increasingly sophisticated attacks of online scammers.

Last month it was reported that two major tech companies were tricked by a Lithuanian man into sending him over $100m (77m). Evaldas Rimasauskas, 48, was charged with wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft for impersonating Quanta Computer - a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that includes Google, Facebook and Apple as clients.