Federal Probe Underway After Customer Data Theft at Nova Scotia Power

Federal Probe Underway After Customer Data Theft at Nova Scotia Power
The Nova Scotia Power headquarters is seen in Halifax on November 29, 2018. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
Jennifer Cowan
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An investigation has been launched by Ottawa’s privacy watchdog into a ransomware attack that resulted in the theft of personal information from 280,000 customers of Nova Scotia’s electric utility.
Nova Scotia Power confirmed last week that hackers had stolen the data and released it on the dark web, impacting roughly half of its customers.