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   Hackers steal customer data in Nova Scotia Power cyberattack   
      
   Date:   
   Fri, 16 May 2025 15:29:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Plenty of sensitive information was grabbed, including bank account numbers.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Nova Scotia Power, a major electricity provider in the Canadian province,   
   suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive customer information. The   
   company confirmed the news in an announcement published on its website.    
      
   The original announcement, published in late April 2025, said the attack did   
   not disrupt the company's physical operations, or its ability to serve its   
   customers, but added that the team was working on bringing parts of its IT   
   system back online.    
      
   A subsequent update stated that the attack occurred on March 19, 2025, and   
   that the miscreants stole peoples names, phone numbers, email addresses,   
   mailing and service addresses, Nova Scotia Power program participation   
   information, dates of birth, and customer account history (such as power   
   consumption, service requests, customer payment, billing, and credit history,   
   and customer correspondence), drivers license numbers, and Social Insurance   
   Numbers.    
      
   No evidence of abuse   
      
   For some of our customers, bank account numbers (for pre-authorized payment)   
   may also have been impacted, if this information was provided by these   
   customers.    
      
   While all of the stolen data is valuable to criminals and can be used in a   
   wide range of ways, from identity theft to phishing, this last part - the    
   loss of bank account numbers - is particularly worrisome, as it allows crooks   
   to mount wire fraud, as well.    
      
   Nova Scotia Power stressed that there is no evidence the data was abused in   
   the wild and added that it is offering impacted individuals a two-year   
   subscription to a comprehensive credit monitoring service at no cost.    
      
   People who are affected by the breach are currently being notified, the   
   company added, without disclosing exactly how many people that is. At press   
   time, no threat actors claimed responsibility for the attack.    
      
   Users are advised to remain vigilant and particularly careful when receiving   
   unsolicited email messages, or phone calls, from people claiming to be from   
   Nova Scotia Power.    
      
    Via BleepingComputer   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-steal-customer-data-in-nova-sco   
   tia-power-cyberattack   
      
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