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Image Comics' Accounting E-mails Hacked, Don't Click On That Link

Image Comics' Accounting team member e-mails have been hacked, so.. don't click on that link!

Published Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:57:05 -0500

Article Summary

Image Comics' accounting e-mail was hacked, sending phishing links to creators and industry contacts.
Suspicious e-mails appeared to be from Sue Korpela with links to a malicious Russian website.
Image Comics has warned recipients not to click on attachments or links from the accounting e-mail address.
The publisher is working quickly to resolve the breach and protect the financial safety of creators.

Earlier, a few people across the comics industry got an e-mail from Sue Korpela from the Accounting Team at Image Comics, basically in charge of paying comic book creators, headed "FW: Sue Korpela Shared a Document with you (KINDLY REVIEW ATTACHED)" reading'

"Hello there,
Here are the Documents I need you to review, For security reasons I sent them to you using my Microsoft Excel, if you have questions please do not hesitate to reply back to this email
Review Document
Best Regards, Sue Korpela
Sincerely, Sue Korpela
Accounting Team – Image Comics, Inc. accounting@imagecomics.com
The Accounting Department is working a flex schedule of 4x10s. My workdays are Monday – Thursday from 5:30AM to 3:30PM PST. Image Comics, Inc. PO Box 14457 Portland, OR 97293"

I hope you didn't click on the attached link, as it goes to a Russian site of dubious repute. Image Comics has now issued a follow-up e-mail forwarded to me by pretty much everyone, saying;

"Hi everyone,
Sue Korpela's/Accounting's email address was hacked around 4 AM Pacific this morning and false emails are still going out to contacts. We're working to resolve this and regain control of the email account as swiftly as possible—but in the meantime, do NOT open any attachments/click any links in emails from her/the accounting@ email address that you receive today.
Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.
Thank you,
The Image Comics Team"

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Do you remember when we used to get that kind of thing all the time? The I Love You virus and all that? Seems a different world. Well, possibly not for Sue Korpela.

Image Comics is the third-largest direct-market comic-book and graphic-novel publisher in the industry and was founded in 1992 by Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino as a publisher specialising in creator-owned comic books, including the likes of Spawn, Savage Dragon, WildCATS, Youngblood, Witchblade, Bone, Monstress, Nocterra, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Saga, Jupiter's Legacy, Kick-Ass, Radiant Black and Stray Dogs.

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