Dan McCrum’s Backstory of Wirecard, Germany’s Biggest Post-War Fraud Scandal
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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 28, 2026 – Listen to the Podcast Episode Award winning investigative reporter Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from both sides of the The post Dan McCrum’s Backstory of Wirecard, Germany’s Biggest Post-War Fraud Scandal appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine .
Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 28, 2026
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Award winning investigative reporter Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from both sides of the Atlantic, and has a particular interest in accounting fraud and corporate misbehaviour.
His acclaimed book Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth was made into the Netflix feature documentary Skandal! Bringing down Wirecard .
Dan has won more than a dozen prizes for his reporting, including Journalist of the Year at the 2020 British Journalism Awards.
In this Cybercrime Magazine Podcast episode, he joins host Scott Schober to discuss his six-year investigation into Wirecard , as well as his findings, which were a large part of what led to Wirecard’s collapse.
Payments company Wirecard collapsed in 2020 in Germany’s biggest post-war fraud scandal.
Listen to the Podcast Episode
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