Spanish court debates Swiss extradition demand for ex-Geneva computer man GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hervé Falciani, who famously handed over to the French government client data that he stole from his employer, HSBC’s Geneva office, said Monday 15 April that he has not received any money for providing the information. He also told a Spanish court [...]
Greek journalist arrested for publishing bank acct names
October 29, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A well-known Greek journalist provoked police to arrest him in a suburb of Athens Sunday 28 October after he published the names of more than 2,000 Greek residents who are on an old list of HSBC Geneva bank accounts. The list was reportedly given to the Greek government by the French government [...]
HSBC theft man arrested in Spain, Swiss seek extradition
July 24, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The French and Italian citizen who is accused of stealing data from his one-time employer, HSBC bank in Geneva, and then selling it to the French government, has been arrested in Spain. Switzerland has had an international arrest warrant out for him, but as long as he stayed in France he could [...]
French prosecutor claims 80,000 HSBC account holders identified
April 14, 2010 by
Numbers don’t correspond to files handed back to Geneva bank Nice, France (GenevaLunch) – The public prosecutor in Nice, Eric de Montgolfier, told a group of reporters Wednesday 14 April that 80,000 account holders have been identified, 8,000 of them French, from the files stolen from HSBC bank’s Geneva offices in 2007. The former HSBC [...]
Who is Hervé Falciani and why do we care?
March 14, 2010 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Europe’s largest bank made a startling confession, accompanied by an apology, to its clients 11 March: Britain’s HSBC said it had been given evidence by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor that a Geneva office employee stole data linked to 24,000 client accounts and tried to sell the information abroad. The employee, Hervé [...]
HSBC’s timeline on bank theft shows it was out in the cold
March 11, 2010 by
Falciani’s theft covered several months but it is not yet clear how he did it [correction 13 March] Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The extraordinary under-assessment by HSBC of the number of bank accounts implicated in the theft of data from Geneva begins to make more sense when the timeline the bank provided to the press [...]
Germany offered 2nd batch stolen data, Swiss ask for copy of first
February 5, 2010 by
German local government confirms new stolen data offered, Swiss president confirms Germany bought first batch Swiss politician might consider reconsidering Swiss banking secrecy, some hint Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The saga of data stolen from Swiss banks and offered to the German government continues, with new wrinkles to the story. A German newspaper will publish [...]
French data thief claims he was kidnapped in Champel
December 22, 2009 by
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -The latest twist in the increasingly tangled tale of client data stolen from HSBC in Geneva comes from the thief himself, formerly known as Hervé Falciani. The former HSBC computer system employee who now lives under a new identity in the south of France told French journalists from Nice Matin that in [...]
France to return stolen HSBC client data
December 21, 2009 by
Update 21:15 (last paragraph) Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The French authorities have responded favourably to Switzerland’s demand to return the data stolen by a former employee of HSBC Private Bank in Geneva, reportedly amounting to 130,000 client names. French Ministry of Justice officials confirmed that the stolen laptop was to be returned “very quickly”. The [...]
HSBC data theft may involve more than 10 clients
December 14, 2009 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The French public prosecutor in Nice, southern France, Eric de Montgolfier, has revealed that his office is in possession of confidential details of up to 130,000 clients from HSBC’s private banking branch in Geneva. The data was acquired by the French state when Hervé Falciani, a former IT employee of the [...]
