Cybersecurity
Stolen Carbon Permits Won’t Enter Market, Austrian Registry Says
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Austria said emissions permits traced to accounts in Liechtenstein and Sweden after disappearing in a computer-hacking attack last month will be blocked from trade as Europe seeks to shore up confidence in the market.
“The illegally transferred allowances have been frozen in accounts in Liechtenstein and Sweden,” the Austrian registry said today in a statement on its website. “There is no risk that these allowances are traded on the market and thus no need to publish the serial numbers of the affected allowances.” Austria said Jan. 10 it lost 488,141 permits. The BlueNext SA exchange in Paris, which resumed Feb. 4 after a