The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was targeted by 238,711 malicious and unsolicited emails over the final three months of 2020.

This means it received over 80,000 email attacks each month, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Griffin Law.

In the FCA’s response, they provided a breakdown of all email’s blocked by their system from the October to December 2020.

Nearly all (99 percent) blocked emails were defined as spam, which includes everyt...