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Bermuda cyber hack: Offshore law firm data hack leaves super-rich bracing for their financial details to be leaked

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Dissent

Ryan Wilkinson reports:

A leading offshore law firm with clients including the super-rich and international corporations has revealed it suffered a “data security incident” that may result in customers’ private information being leaked.

Bermuda-based Appleby, which has offices in a number of British overseas territories, said some of its data had been “compromised” in the 2016 cyber incident.

The firm issued a statement after it was contacted by a group of investigative journalists probing allegations concerning its “business and the business conducted by some of our clients”.

Read more on The Independent.

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