A 32-year-old B.C. man has been charged by Hamilton police in connection to what authorities call “a complex cyber-enabled fraud.”
According to a July 9 press release from the Hamilton Police Service, the suspect is accused of taking advantage of a cyberattack in order to steal over half a million dollars from a municipal housing affiliate of the City of Hamilton.
The press release describes a cyberattack in February of last year that impacted networks used by city employees and led them putting in “manual workarounds” to get municipal work done. This led to the city’s systems being “more vulnerable to human error and external manipulation,” according to police….