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MATTHEW VELLA A confidential IT security re- port seen by MaltaToday shows that HSBC Malta was targeted by the hacking group Empire- Monkey months in advance before their successful hacking of Bank of Valletta. The group carried out a €13 million heist from the bank on 13 February, which led BOV to temporarily take its services offline. But the hackers were already busy targeting HSBC bank in Malta as early as 25 October 2018 – three and a half months before the successful incursion into BOV – a document detail- ing the communications issued by HSBC, seen by this newspa- per, shows. "Has anyone else observed malware delivered from this domain [Autorité des marchés financiers] since 19 October?... we have observed subsequent delivery attempts on 22 and 24 October," the consultants said, referring to an attack on the French stock market regu- lator AMF. French stock PAGE 5 SUNDAY • 10 MARCH 2019 • ISSUE 1009 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 10 MARCH 2019 • ISSUE 1009 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday €1.95 2 today today GENDER QUOTAS 70% say they want more women MPs through parliamentary quotas mt survey PGS 8-9 HSBC warned of BOV hackers last year Security report identifi ed BOV heist hackers while testing malicious emails to be sent to bank employees Growing up Maltese, female, muslim in Malta... 14-15 "I saw my migrant father bluntly discriminated against, treated as an outsider and a parasite" "For more women in public life, someone else has to run the household..." in public life, in public life, someone else has to run the household..." Josanne Cassar PG 22 Labour's eco-warrior Labour MEP Miriam Dalli INTERVIEW 16-17 MATTHEW VELLA A spokesperson for gas sup- pliers Liquigas has denied that the use of propane in the LPG mix for gas cylinders could be hazardous for appli- ances that are being exposed to pressures higher than the G30 and G31 standards. The company on Wednes- day said in a statement – is- sued hours after it received questions from MaltaTo- day – that none of the latest two incidents involving gas explosion involved cylin- ders. "One was the result of a defective appliance and the other was due to a cracked rubber pipe. The first of the three recent incidents is un- der a magisterial investiga- tion and therefore PAGE 2 Liquigas denies propane risk as warning sent to minister Labour's eco-warrior Labour MEP Miriam Dalli INTERVIEW 16-17 Have we got the power? 12-13