“Individuals who have been affected are gonna have to monitor their credit indefinitely going forward.”
Canada Revenue Agency's online services were recently suspended following a series of cyberattacks linked to the online application system for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefits program.
On Aug. 10, the 52-year-old was puzzled when she received an email from Canada Revenue Agency notifying her of a new message in her account. She logged into her account and found no trace of the message, but later noticed her direct deposit details had been changed to a bank account in Quebec. The email address associated with her account had also been changed.South Woodslee, Ont.
On August 15, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat announced in a press release that more than 14,500 GCKey and CRA accountsin a series of cyberattacks, exposing thousands of Canadians’ social insurance numbers, home addresses, banking details and tax information. Individuals who have been affected are going to have to monitor their credit indefinitely going forward.“The possibilities of how that information could be used are endless,” agreed lawyer Angela Bespflug from Murphy Battista LLP, the Vancouver-based firm pursuing this action.
To add insult to injury, some of the people whose information was compromised saw their CERB or CESB payments suspended pending investigation, which means they couldn’t access money they desperately needed in these hard times.Federal government officials explained in an Aug. 17 press conference that the first of three cyberattacks happened 10 days earlier, on Aug. 7.
It’s only after a third attack that CRA suspended their “My Account,” “My Business Account” and “Represent a Client” online services.
Seriously get the mobile app from your bank and check your accounts daily. I got dinged for 1700.00 in my credit card from a shop in Montreal that sold halal meat and groceries. Cibc refunded me but said my info had been sold in the dark web. Said was probably from online buy
Canada has some of the worst issues with cyber hacking... like apparently we are REALLY easy to hack. They need to hire better hackers at the government to show them how to do shit right.
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