Vasco see profits significantly reduced by DigiNotar-bankruptcy

The final bankruptcy of the Dutch DigiNotar has the Us parent company Vasco Data Security this year, millions of dollars. It was still profit, despite the bankruptcy of the group’s 5.6 million dollar cost.

Vasco saw sales within a year increased from $ 75 million to 119,6 million dollars. The profit amounted to 2.2 million dollars. The profit was considerably higher: over the past three months cost the loss-making DigiNotar, the company 3.7 million dollars, in the past nine months was that even 5.6 million dollars, so the figures of the third quarter. It is unclear whether this claims are taken into account.

The Haarlem court found ssl-authority DigiNotar last month bankrupt. According to Vasco, it was a ‘voluntary failissement’. The company ran into trouble after an Iranian hacker fake ssl certificates had been made. When it later turned out that the certificates of the Dutch government is no longer to be trusted, the government decided to trust in DigiNotar and other certificate authority to choose.

Vasco is currently working with the ministry of justice on an investigation into the hack. The company has the activities of DigiNotar terminated. Is the intellectual property of DigiNotar transferred to Vasco-companies.

The Inner DigiNotar came early this year in the hands of Vasco. Vasco wanted to DigiNotars knowledge its own pki, and digital handtekeningendiensten improve. DigiNotar has twelve years with a variety of business security solutions focused.