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Phishing scams affect lots of online financial transactions, and now they have descended upon the ETS (Photo: printing.com)

Cyber-scam artists disrupt emissions trading across EU

Emissions trading registries in a number of EU countries were shut down on Tuesday (2 February) as a result of a phishing scam tricking traders into giving away their emissions allowances.

Although emissions trading was still able to continue via the European Emissions Exchange, registries in nine member states - Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria Germany - closed to prevent any further losses, according to reports in the German press. Other national r...

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Phishing scams affect lots of online financial transactions, and now they have descended upon the ETS (Photo: printing.com)

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