Suisse secrets revealed

What happened?

massive data leak from the Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse has revealed details of 18,000 bank accounts, and 30,000 account holders, stretching back decades and holding more than $100bn in all. Some of the account holders are individuals, others are corporations, and 160 nationalities are represented. The sums involved are vast: the average account held about CHF7.5m at its largest point (about £6m, or more than $8m), and more than a dozen held more than $1bn. The anonymous leaker, who is a current or former employee of the bank, approached the Suddeutsche Zeitung journalists behind the