Ask HN: Is “Trustwave” Legitimate?

1 points by _bxg1 6y ago ↗ HN

A small business owner I know just got an email from trustwave.com about urgently needing to log in to their "PCI Manager" and update their "Scan Attestation". I assumed it was a phishing email at first, but I did some research and a) PCI compliance has to do with accepting credit card payments, which they do (though they're just a local shop; they don't have any custom tech around doing that), and b) trustwave seems like it may be a real company: it has a website and a Wikipedia page, and the latter has been around for ~4 years though it's also marked as "reading like an advertisement".

How do I know if this is legit? I equally don't want them to get phished and don't want them to have a problem with their PCI status.

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weare138 6y ago ↗

Unless the business owner already uses Trustwave, which it doesn't seem like they do, then I'm pretty sure this is a phishing email or spam. Trustwave themselves seems like a legit company. I've heard of them but I don't have any first hand experience with them.