Foreign hackers targeted Canadian firms

November 30, 2011

A leading cyber-crime expert says foreign hackers who launched a massive attack on Canadian government computers last fall also broke into the data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms and other companies to get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover.

Daniel Tobok, whose international cyber-sleuthing company was called in by a number of the firms hit by the attacks and who has prominent clients around the world, called the assault on Canadian companies and the government "one of the biggest attacks we have ever seen." Read more