Nearly 13,000 Canadians potentially victims of CERB fraud after hackers accessed CRA accounts in 2020 cdnpoli
One of the hackers victims was Todd Sweet, who found out when he logged into his Canada Revenue Agency account back in 2020 that not only had criminals stolen his data, but fraudulently applied for COVID-19 emergency benefits four times.
The same summer, another credential stuffing attack was successfully conducted against the government’s “GCKey” login system, which allows access to My Service Canada Accounts and is used by 30 government departments, including the RCMP and Immigration Canada. In a statement, the agency said it has beefed up its cyber-defence systems since the breaches, including adding multi-factor authentication and immediately locking an account if the agency believes it is compromised.
But that isn’t Sweet’s experience. In an affidavit to court in support of the lawsuit, Sweet says he received an email from CRA in July 2020 telling him his email had been removed from his MyCRA account. When he logged in to check why, he discovered that his direct deposit information had been changed three days prior.
It was only in late September that the government sent him a letter informing him that his personal information has been compromised during the data breach, he wrote in court documents.
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