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Reinsurers rank climate change as the top risk facing the global insurance industry, a survey by the professional services firm PwC has revealed. The organisation said that many respondents to its Insurance Banana Skins 2021 Survey pointed to a sharp...

A member of the public has lost more than $10,000 in a scam investment scheme that promised high returns. A police spokesman highlighted a second scheme where fraudsters tried to obtain private financial details of victims. He explained the first fra...

New online and e-mail scams have led to substantial cash losses, police warned today. A spokesman said fraudsters who posed as family members or friends had contacted people on social media platforms such as Instagram and promised a same-day return o...

A majority of companies do not have a handle on their third-party cyber risks, which are obscured by the complexity of their business relationships and vendor/supplier networks, a global survey by the professional services firm PwC has revealed. The ...

A warning over a staycation promotion by a supermarket chain was today issued by police. A police spokesman said the offer from supermarket chain MarketPlace, in conjunction with the Hamilton Princess Hotel, had been cloned by fraudsters. He added th...

Bermuda Police Service is urging vendors to tighten up on security measures for credit-card payments amid an increase in cybercrime during the pandemic. Superintendent Nick Pedro, officer in charge of the BPS Serious Crimes Division, said the most fr...

A 31-year-old man has denied accusations that he posted “intimate videos” of a former lover to the internet without her consent. The man, from St George’s, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to two counts of sending videos of “an inde...

Bermuda Police Service is fighting a constant battle trying to keep pace with cybercriminals who have been increasingly active during the pandemic. Superintendent Nicholas Pedro, officer in charge of the Serious Crime Division, told business owners o...

The public was today warned to ignore social media messages from people who impersonated Government ministers. A Government spokesman said: “One of the latest examples is a fake social media profile – bearing the likeness of Deputy Premier and Minist...

Police warned the public today about a scam e-mail that used the Premier’s name to promote a bogus investment opportunity. A police spokesman said that the e-mail, which called David Burt “Prime Minister Burt”, asked people to invest in a cryptocurre...

A “mystery shopper” scam has resurfaced on social media, police warned today. A spokesman for the Bermuda Police Service said that the scam offered work as a mystery shopper with the potential to earn thousands of dollars by “completing seemingly in...

Cyber criminals could take advantage of the Covid-19 crisis to hack the computers of people working from home, the national security minister warned today. Wayne Caines said that there were reports from other countries that “malicious parties are alr...