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Xero Security Report And Data Breaches

June 10, 2021
Bill Kimball

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  • We’ve had reports of people receiving a malicious email advising them that they have received a “scanned document from Xero”.
  • The invoice balances with the credit notes however if I look at account 811 the security deposit is still sowing as a credit, and there is no debit.
  • These emails are being sent from a wide range of individual and business email addresses, as well as with different invoice numbers.
  • At the same time, during lulls in activity Xero is not paying for capacity that sits idle.
  • We’ve had new reports of people receiving a variant of the fake Xero Billing Notification emails posted earlier this week.
  • I struggled to find questions that I might reliably be able to answer if asked in 3 months time.

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Security Policy

This provides a second level of security for your Xero account. It means you’re also asked to enter a unique code generated by a separate authenticator app on your smartphone. We recommend you use two-step authentication as it reduces the risk of your Xero account being accessed if your password is compromised. Our customer support staff cannot access your information unless you invite them to help.

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Following that period, we’ll make sure it’s deleted or anonymised. Security is a priority for us when it comes to your personal data. We’re committed to protecting your personal data and have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to make sure that happens. For more information about security, check out Xero’s security pages.

If we don’t collect your personal data, we may be unable to provide you with all our services, and some functions and features on our websites may not be available to you. 1- Creating invoice and bills for security deposits is not correct accounting treatment. Just use One Security account to process and security deposits and refunds.

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[email protected]’ though the subject line, invoice number and amount may vary in an attempt to make the invoice more convincing. “View your bill online” links as they’re likely to redirect you to a malicious website. Please note that the invoice number and amount may vary from the example provided.

We’ve had reports of people receiving fake Xero Billing Notification emails similar to our post in late February. We’ve had new reports of people receiving a variant of the fake Xero Billing Notification emails posted earlier this week.

Small Business

To keep up to date on known phishing and other scams targeting our community, and for information on how to protect yourself from them, sign up to our security noticeboard. For individuals in the European Economic Area , this means that your data may be transferred outside of the EEA. For further information, please contact us using the details set out in the Contact us section below. When we share data, it may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country you live in – such as to the United States, where our data hosting provider’s servers are located. These countries may have laws different to what you’re used to. Rest assured, where we disclose personal data to a third party in another country, we put safeguards in place to ensure your personal data remains protected.

Fully managed third-party risk and data leak detection. “unsubscribe” links as they’re likely to redirect you to a malicious website with the intent of stealing your Xero username and password. “Yes,it’s me – let’s get started” link as it’s likely to redirect you to a malicious website with the intent of stealing your Xero username and password. If you’re an existing Xero user, we recommend enabling Two-Step Authentication as another layer of protection for your account.

This’ll start with the letters “CX” in the subject of your email. Though this doesn’t currently exclude the security questions setup, once in place you can readily choose which method you use when you login. Hi everyone, Come on over to the new discussions in Xero Central.

You ought to be congratulated for making things MORE difficult. Thank you also for not replying to urgent requests for assistance because it continues to be VERY easy for me to talk people OUT of singing up with you. Heya Kim, thanks for also coming into the team at Support – the team have tools & the expertise to help with this, to ensure the account is kept secure.

They will be able to advise you how to submit a complaint. It’s your personal data and you have certain rights relating to it.

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DO NOT CLICK on any link or attachment contained in the email. If you suspect you’ve received a phishing or malicious email, and it says it’s from Xero or uses Xero’s logo, do not click on anything in the email – please report it by forwarding the email The email asks for personal information that they should already have, or information that isn’t relevant to your business with them. The actual linked URL is different from the one displayed – hover your mouse over any links in an email (DON’T CLICK) to see if the actual URL is different.

We’ve had reports of people receiving a malicious email advising them that they have received a “scanned document from Xero”. If you have received this email, you should report it as phishing and delete it. Do not click on the hyperlink included in the email. If you’ve received one of these emails you should report it as phishing and delete it. For example, “Your bank account will be closed if you don’t respond right away”. If you are not sure and want to check, then go directly to the bank’s website via the URL you would normally use, or phone them. The email says you’ve won a competition you didn’t enter, have a parcel waiting that you didn’t order, or promises huge rewards for your help.

I read up on this today and added credit notes to the invoice to cancel out the money we received minus a cancellation fee. The invoice balances with the credit notes however if I look at account 811 the security deposit is still sowing as a credit, and there is no debit.

On the internet, if it sounds too good to be true then it probably isn’t true. However, there can be risks to working and playing online. Whether you’re shopping, banking, doing your accounts, or simply checking your email, cyber criminals and scammers are always looking for ways to steal money or sensitive information.

I do use the invoice number in the reference on the bill so I can easily find what has been returned and what has not. I guess I was hoping to find something in Xero that could just tell me on a simple report who was still owed what. Without that data base relationship between the invoice and bill that is not possible though. The problem with this is that there is no way to link the bill to the invoice so there there is no quick way to see who has been refunded and who has not. There are separate additional spreadsheets floating around recording who has paid money in and ho has been refunded. Not the most streamlined of processes and is very manual. Please do remove this terrible misfeature, or at least allow me the freedom not to use it.

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Do not click on any links or attachments in suspicious emails. You can find out more about how to identify phishing and other malicious emails, and how to stay safe online, on our Security page. There are precautions you can take to reduce the risks and help keep you safe from harm online. Take a few minutes to read ourintroduction to cloud security, and see below for information about how to identify and deal with scams and malicious phishing emails. The Xero team worked closely with Check Point to implement security at every level of the infrastructure stack.