- New Scotland Power confirmed a cyber attack in March 2025
- The attackers stole confidential client data, including names, SSNS and, in some cases, bank information
- Customers are offered free identity theft monitoring
New Scotland Power, an important electricity supplier in the Canadian province, suffered an attack in which he lost confidential information of the client. The company confirmed the news in an announcement published on its website.
The original announcement, published at the end of April 2025, said the attack did not interrupt the company’s physical operations, or its ability to serve its customers, but added that the team was working to put parts of its IT system online.
A subsequent update indicated that the attack occurred on March 19, 2025 and that criminals stole the names of people, telephone numbers, email addresses, mail addresses and service, participation information on the NOVA Scotia Energy Program, Credit and customer correspondence), driver license numbers and social security numbers and social security numbers.
There is no evidence of abuse
“For some of our customers, bank account numbers (for pre -authorized payment) may also have been affected, if these clients provided this information.”
While all stolen data are valuable for criminals and can be used from a wide range of ways, from identity theft to phishing, this last part, the loss of bank account numbers, is particularly worrying, since it allows criminals to mount the wire fraud.
New Scotland Power emphasized that there is no evidence that the data were abused in nature and added that they are offering the impacted people a two -year subscription to a “comprehensive credit monitoring service” without cost at no cost.
The people affected by the violation are currently notified, the company added, without revealing exactly how many people are. At the time of publication, no threat actor attributed the responsibility of the attack.
Users are advised to remain attentive and particularly careful when receiving unre requested email messages, or telephone calls, of people who claim to be new Power Scotland.
Through Bleepingcomputer
