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Hackers steal 2 million tonnes of EU carbon credits
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| 1/20/11
| AFP
Posted on 01/20/2011 10:43:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BRUSSELS (AFP) Hackers stole two million tonnes of polluting rights in a five-day raid this week on the European Union's carbon emissions trading system, an EU source said on Thursday.
The volume of carbon credits stolen in online action, which a European Commission spokeswoman was "possibly concerted", represents just a fraction of global industrial greenhouse gas permits, but is potentially worth many millions of euros.
The scale of the theft, which involved five unnamed EU states, was revealed a day after Brussels shut all 27 national trading registries for a week, citing inadequate online protection.
Credits stolen just from the Czech Republic were worth seven million euros.
Fourteen of the 27 European Union states need to boost their online security to minimum standards, the spokeswoman said.
The EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is the largest multinational, greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world, but has repeatedly suffered security breaches.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: algore; carbon; conartist; credits; emissions; fraud; greenhousegas; hackers; manbearpig; scam; steal; tonnes
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To: NormsRevenge
What could go wrong with a cap n tax scheme like this? Surely we’ll be able to control the climate if we trade these imaginary units and various criminal organizations wouldn’t ever try to take advantage while we smugly save the planet would they?
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:03:17 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: WOBBLY BOB
I keep my carbon credits hidden in a wood stove. Thieves would never think to look there, especially when there is a fire in it.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:04:28 AM PST
by
IMR 4350
To: NormsRevenge
"The EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is the largest multinational, greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme Ponzi Scheme in the world, but has repeatedly suffered security breaches.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:07:16 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: dead
Somebody stole my secret wishes and lofty ideals! Really? Your 2 cents worth? ;^)
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:08:14 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: NormsRevenge
Wait... someone stole something that doesn't really exist or mean anything in the first place. Not only that, but they stole it online in a market where people buy and sell things that don't exist. And they've potentially made millions of dollars?
My head hurts.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:14:12 AM PST
by
Domalais
To: NormsRevenge
Later, near an open car trunk:
“Yo, I got some fresh carbon credits right here. What? Naw, man, this is better than magic beans! So good the price is two Benjamins instead of one...aight.....see ya....sucka.”
Not much difference between the original seller and the fence, come to think of it.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:14:28 AM PST
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: NormsRevenge
ROFLOMAO!
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:22:07 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: NormsRevenge
Is this a joke? Exactly where do you find a fence for carbon credits? How do you launder carbon credits?
To: NormsRevenge
Two million tonnes? However did they carry them?
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:27:50 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
To: NormsRevenge
From what I have read the Mob controls the EU trading in Carbon Credits. So these hackers have just stolen from the Mafia.
Not a good idea. Some bodies will be found.
To: NormsRevenge
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
--Bono
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:33:14 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: NormsRevenge
Stealing from thieves. No honor among thieves.
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:44:14 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(RIP Royal Marshall, you ran the good race.)
To: NormsRevenge
Carbon credits......toilet paper
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posted on
01/20/2011 11:46:53 AM PST
by
ronnie raygun
(V.........................................FOR VOMIT)
To: NormsRevenge
...but is potentially worth many millions of euros. This article fails to mention a singularly important issue, which is: how many quatloos is that, given the current exchange rate?
/s
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posted on
01/20/2011 12:30:45 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Political Correctness is mandatory stupidity.)
To: NormsRevenge
Now these stupid things are going to start showing up in pawn shops all over Europe...
To: NormsRevenge
Stealing carbon credits.
Doesn't that make about as much sense as stealing unicorn licenses?
I mean, what are you going to do with them, sell them to elves?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/20/2011 12:53:29 PM PST
by
The Comedian
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
To: NormsRevenge
My poo has some carbon in it. I’d like to sell it to the EU. I offer competitive discount prices on all carbon credits!
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posted on
01/20/2011 1:01:51 PM PST
by
Soothesayer
(smallpox is not a person)
To: Liberty Valance
To: La Lydia
My local pawn shop had a whole stack of them. Right between the power tools and the guitars. /s
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posted on
01/20/2011 3:45:49 PM PST
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
To: Gabrial
There is a guy in an overcoat selling them on the street in downtown DC. Come to think of it, he looks a lot like Al Gore.
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posted on
01/20/2011 3:48:16 PM PST
by
La Lydia
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