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The Canadian Press

Posted August 18, 2026 4:27 pm

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Nova Scotia Power officials say they don’t know why a digital copy of almost three decades worth of customer information that was later stolen in a cyberattack was not automatically deleted as intended.

The information, containing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of customers, was accessed in March 2025 by what the company has said it believes were Russia-based actors.

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It contained addresses, phone numbers…

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