Eagle Mountain reported a $1.13 million payment-fraud loss from August 2022

On Sept. 20, 2022 the City Administrator told the council in a work session about an ACH fraud incident. The minutes record that the FBI found outside actors responsible and cleared city and vendor employees, and that fund recovery was unlikely except through the insurer. ^[1]

On Oct. 3, 2024 the city announced a settlement of a legal dispute with its construction contractor, headlined as following a loss of $1.13 million. ^[2] The city's release says an August 2022 cybercrime involving an external email impersonation scheme targeted a financial transaction tied to a major infrastructure project, and that $400,000 had been recovered so far. It says an IT review found no security breach in the city's internal systems and that no resident, client or vendor information was compromised. It says the city is cooperating with the FBI and had strengthened its financial policies, especially for ACH payments. ^[3]