Canada's financial intelligence agency takes systems offline after cyber-attack
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada was hit by a cyber-attack. The agency took its systems offline in response to the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Systems taken offline
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- Canada
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Timeline
- Canada's financial intelligence agency took its systems offline due to a cyber-attack.
- It emerged that Canada's anti-money laundering agency was offline as a result of a cyber-attack.
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