Thieves Gain Access to About 140,000 Social Insurance Numbers in NS Power Database

Peter Gregg, CEO of Nova Scotia Power, makes an appearance before the Nova Scotia legislature’s law amendments committee in Halifax on Oct. 31, 2022. The Canadian Press/Keith Doucette

Nova Scotia Power’s CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility’s customer records.

Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities.