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Alleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Dissent

The Chronicle Herald reports:

An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties.

Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March 29, 2012, a bank employee accessed and disseminated her personal information, including her name, social insurance number, home address, date of birth, financial information, credit history and other data.

Read more on The Chronicle Herald.

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