Austria: Stolen CO2 Certificates Found In Sweden, Liechtenstein

Austria: Stolen CO2 Certificates Found In Sweden, Liechtenstein
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Παρ, 21 Ιανουαρίου 2011 - 15:07
The Austrian carbon emissions certificates registry, ECRA, said Friday that certificates stolen Jan. 10 during a hackers attack have been located and accounts frozen in Sweden and Liechtenstein.
The Austrian carbon emissions certificates registry, ECRA, said Friday that certificates stolen Jan. 10 during a hackers attack have been located and accounts frozen in Sweden and Liechtenstein .

ECRA said 488,141 certificates, with a value of around EUR7 million, were transferred from an Austrian reserve account using login information obtained by data fishing emails, and took place under cover of a Denial of Service, or DoS, attack that lamed ECRA's data systems while the perpetrators were operating.

The certificates, which were traceable through identification codes, were located shortly after in the Swedish and
Liechtenstein accounts, which were immediately frozen. No private or company certificates accounts at ECRA were compromised during the attack, ECRA said.

Earlier this week the European Union froze trade in carbon certificates, after around 1.3 million emission credits were stolen in the
Czech Republic .

The Austrian spot trade will be closed until at least Jan. 26, ECRA said.

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