EU halts carbon trading after 'concerted' hack attacks The European Commission has temporarily halted trading of carbon emissions credits following revelations that some two-million allowances worth about €30m were stolen from insecure accounts in recent days. At least three of the “cyber attacks” have occurred since the beginning of the year, and other registries are known to be …
What - did the thieves get them to hand over the goodies by telling them the other accounts didn't like them?
But on a more serious note I just hope the exchange's settlement system is equipped to link the serial number of the certificate to any credit that is traded or these boys could have got away scot free - they will just punt these back to the companies who trade with the exchange.
Adoption of multi-factor authentication? Stable door meet hor... oh wait where did he go?
Sir,
I am attorney to late Mr. James L.Dukes who died at camberwell East London on the 11th December, but since his death, nobody has come forward to put a claim to his carbon credits Valued at Thirty million US dollars ($30,000,000.00) He did not disclose any next of kin as was required, hence the bank mandated me to present his Next Of Kin. That is why I need immediate assistance from you to expedite the transfer of the inheritance fund to your account.
We start with: "some two-million allowances worth about €30m"
We then get: "While each ton of credit is worth about €2m apiece"
Finally, "the theft of 250,000 carbon permits worth over €3m."
If we assume that 1 "allowance" = 1 certificate = 1 credit = 1 ton = 1 tonne = 1 "permit" of CO2,
then apparently the price of a credit starts at 15 euro, rises to 2 million euro and then falls to 12 euro. Phew, that must be difficult to keep track of...
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