{"id":5364,"date":"2025-05-16T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/hackers-steal-customer-data-in-nova-scotia-power-cyberattack\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:32:52","slug":"hackers-steal-customer-data-in-nova-scotia-power-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/hackers-steal-customer-data-in-nova-scotia-power-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers steal customer data in Nova Scotia Power cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/UJ5CFPQLDaMmXUqcw3CEXh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nova Scotia Power confirmed suffering a cyberattack in March 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The attackers stole sensitive customer data, including names, SSNs and &#8211; in some cases &#8211; banking information<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The customers are being offered free identity theft monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The original announcement, published in late April 2025, said the attack did not disrupt the company&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p>A subsequent update stated that the attack occurred on March 19, 2025, and that the miscreants stole people\u2019s 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), driver\u2019s license numbers, and Social Insurance Numbers.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<span class=\"bg-secondary-500 text-white text-lg font-bold uppercase py-1 px-2 leading-[1.625rem] sm:leading-[6px] sm:text-sm\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"no-evidence-of-abuse-3\">No evidence of abuse<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFor some of our customers, bank account numbers (for pre-authorized payment) may also have been impacted, if this information was provided by these customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While all of the stolen data is valuable to criminals and can be used in a wide range of ways, from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-identity-theft-protection\" target=\"_blank\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-identity-theft-protection\">identity theft<\/a> to phishing, this last part &#8211; the loss of bank account numbers &#8211; is particularly worrisome, as it allows crooks to mount wire fraud, as well.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201ccomprehensive credit monitoring service\u201d at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-9onPV7sVGyA9PUMgaubCT\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-9onPV7sVGyA9PUMgaubCT slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Via <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nova-scotia-power-confirms-hackers-stole-customer-data-in-cyberattack\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/nova-scotia-power-confirms-hackers-stole-customer-data-in-cyberattack\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>BleepingComputer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-you-might-also-like\"><span>You might also like<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia Power confirmed suffering a cyberattack in March 2025 The attackers stole sensitive customer data, including names, SSNs and &#8211; in some cases &#8211; banking information The customers are being offered free identity theft monitoring Nova Scotia Power, a major electricity provider in the Canadian province, suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}