National Post

BELOW IS A LIST OF CYBER ATTACKS ON THE CENTRAL BANK IN 2016, FROM AN ACCESS TO INFORMATIO­N REQUEST:

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DATE: March 28, 2016 INCIDENT CATEGORY: Email phishing WAS A BANK COMPUTER INFECTED? Yes FALLOUT/ADDITIONAL DETAILS: A phishing campaign targeted eight bank email addresses ACTION TAKEN: One person opened the attachment. The affected computer was quarantine­d.

DATE: March 30, 2016 INCIDENT CATEGORY: Email phishing WAS A BANK COMPUTER INFECTED? Unclear FALLOUT/ADDITIONAL DETAILS: A phishing campaign targeted 58 bank email addresses ACTION TAKEN: IT recommende­d notifying the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre to contact the infected host's Internet Service Provider

DATE: March 31, 2016 INCIDENT CATEGORY: Email phishing WAS A BANK COMPUTER INFECTED: Yes FALLOUT/ADDITIONAL DETAILS: A phishing campaign targeted eight bank email addresses ACTION TAKEN: One person opened the attachment. The computer was quarantine­d.

DATE: March 31, 2016 INCIDENT CATEGORY: Email phishing WAS A BANK COMPUTER INFECTED? Yes FALLOUT/ADDITIONAL DETAILS: A security bulletin notes that this month, 21 malicious emails reached inboxes with attachment­s intact. Nearly 15 million suspicious messages were delivered during the month of March 2016, 93% of which were blocked by system ACTION TAKEN: Affected computer quarantine­d

DATE: Aug. 29, 2016 INCIDENT CATEGORY: Email phishing WAS A BANK COMPUTER INFECTED? Yes FALLOUT/ADDITIONAL DETAILS: A phishing campaign targeted 28 bank email addresses ACTION TAKEN: One user downloaded a password stealer. Compromise­d computer removed from network. The 28 recipients were told to delete the email

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