Saturday, March 13, 2021

PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN THE CRA

About 800,000 Canadians will be blocked out of their Canada Revenue Agency online account until they change their login credentials after identical information was found for sale on the dark web.

The number is a significant jump from the agency’s initial assessment that caught over 100,000 potentially compromised accounts, and the agency believes that number will continue to balloon as external data breaches remain prevalent and people re-use identical login credentials for multiple web services.

But do not fret: your account has not been breached and none of your data stored with the CRA has been stolen, the agency says in an advisory published Friday.


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