What’s going on with Nova Scotia Power’s billing in wake of ransomware attack | CBC News

Nova Scotia Power is sending workers out to manually check power meters at homes to ensure accurate billing, as some customers complain of receiving higher than expected bills. It’s the latest development since a ransomware attack breached the company’s computer systems on March 19 and brought some of its systems to a halt. More than half of the utility’s customers in Nova Scotia — about 280,000 — were informed by letter that their personal information may have been compromised. Read full story here: What’s going on with Nova Scotia Power’s…

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‘Quebec Is An Embarrassment’: Province Urged To Do More On Cybersecurity | CTV News

MONTREAL — On Sept. 10, municipal employees in a region between Montreal and Quebec City arrived at work to discover a threatening message on their computers notifying them they were locked out of all their files. In order to regain access to its data, the regional municipality of Mekinac was told to deposit eight units of the digital currency Bitcoin into a bank account — roughly equivalent to $65,000. Mekinac’s IT department eventually negotiated the cyber extortionists down and paid $30,000 in Bitcoin, but not before the region’s servers were…

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