Panama Papers-style Scandal likely to follow Bermuda Law Firm Hack

LONDON – A Bermuda-based law firm specialising in offshore tax havens has said it is bracing for documents to be published after being approached by the media network behind the Panama Papers.

Apple by, the law firm, admitted it had been hacked last year, prompting fears of a Panama Papers-style exposé into the tax affairs of the super rich, a British newspaper reported Wednesday.

The US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and affiliated media raised allegations against the company’s operations and its clients, following information being leaked.

The law firm, founded in 1897, is in the process of writing to customers to warn them of the compromise, which occurred in 2016, and comes after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) threatened to open up the cache of files that it claims were leaked to it in September last year.