Fintrac still offline 3 months after cyber attack, leaves blindspot to identifying financial crime

Three months after Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (Fintrac) was hit by a cyber attack, a critical system used by the national financial intelligence agency remains offline. Experts say the outage leaves Canada with a major blindspot to identifying terrorist financing and other serious crimes. While Fintrac says it’s found a workaround for most submissions, critics argue the gap is still significant. Carolyn Jarvis reports.

• 3 months after Fintrac hack, experts say Canada missing out on financial intelligence