Canada’s privacy commissioner says Nova Scotia’s largest power utility will strengthen its security following a cyberattack last year.  Nova Scotia Power sent a compliance letter to commissioner Philippe Dufresne saying it will delete customer social security numbers that it has on file. The utility says in the letter it will also provide Dufresne’s office with […]

Nova Scotia Power announced on Tuesday that current president and CEO Peter Gregg will be departing his current role and taking on a new position within Emera Inc., the utility’s multinational parent company. Gregg will officially be replaced by incoming president and CEO Vivek Sood, a Nova Scotia Power board member who also has 20 […]

Nova Scotia’s private power company has named a new chief executive as the utility deals with fallout from last year’s cyberattack and seeks a widely criticized hike in power rates. Nova Scotia Power says current president and CEO Peter Gregg will leave his post on March 1 to become vice-president of strategy and policy with […]

Nova Scotia’s energy regulator is planning a two-part inquiry into last year’s cyberattack at the province’s private power utility.  One set of hearings will examine the technical aspects of the March 2025 cyberattack at Nova Scotia Power where the personal information of 280,000 customers was accessed. Company officials have said the attack was likely by […]

Nova Scotia’s private power utility says its automatic billing system that was disrupted by a cyberattack almost a year ago should be back to normal next month. Since the attack on Nova Scotia Power in March 2025, some customers have reportedly received bills up to three times higher than the same period the year before. […]

The premier of Nova Scotia is calling for an investigation into how a major power utility has handled a cyberattack, saying residents should not be responsible for paying for Nova Scotia Power’s failures. Tim Houston wrote to the chair of the Nova Scotia Energy Board, saying he wants the regulator to look into the way […]

LONDON (AP) — British retailer Marks and Spencer saw its half-year profits more than halve as a result of a cyberattack that brought its online business to a grinding halt. In a statement Wednesday, M&S said its underlying pretax profits tumbled 55.4% to 184.1 million pounds ($240 million) in the six months to Sept. 27, […]

Oxford County has released a few more details regarding what is now being called a “cybersecurity incident,” but very few details are known. “Last week, we shared that Oxford County was responding to a technical incident relating to its information system,” said a Monday afternoon press release. “We shared this update ahead of full information […]

As many as 4,000 current and former Oxford County employees may have had their personal information compromised in a recent cybersecurity incident, the local government’s warden says. Echoing an apologetic statement from Oxford County, Warden Marcus Ryan said he was sorry the incident happened, adding the county was “doing every single thing” it could to […]

Nova Scotia’s largest electric utility says the impact of a sophisticated cyberattack in March could be much broader than first thought. Nova Scotia Power said in May that about half of its customers — 277,000 ratepayers — may have had personal information stolen by hackers. But the privately owned utility is now saying all of […]

The federal government says individuals’ email addresses and phone numbers associated with Canada Revenue Agency, Employment and Social Development Canada and Canada Border Services Agency accounts were accessed in a cyberattack. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says the government was alerted to the cyber incident on Aug. 17 by 2Keys Corporation, the provider of […]

WestJet says some personal data including information about travel documents such as passports was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year, but credit and debit card numbers as well as user passwords were not compromised. In a note to customers, WestJet says the personal information taken varies from person to person but may include name, […]