The data breach at Canada’s largest financial co-operative keeps getting bigger.
All of Mouvement Desjardins’s individual members — 4.2 million people — have had their personal information compromised as a result of the actions of a single employee, who has since been fired, chief executive officer Guy Cormier said Friday. That’s about 56 per cent more than the total Desjardins first disclosed June 20.
In June, Desjardins said the names, dates of birth, social insurance numbers, addresses and phone numbers of about 2.7 million individual members were affected, plus 173,000 business customers. Passwords, security questions and personal identification numbers weren’t compromised, Desjardins stressed at the time. It blamed the breach on an “unauthorized and illegal use of internal data” by the former employee.
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