{"id":26870,"date":"2022-06-17T19:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T23:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1.6493397"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T23:51:49","slug":"quebec-court-approves-200-9m-settlement-against-desjardins-over-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-court-settlement-desjardins-data-breach-1.6493397?cmp=rss","title":{"rendered":"Quebec court approves $200.9M settlement against Desjardins over data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5344973.1572636168!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_620\/desjardins-atm-generic.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Superior Court of Quebec has approved a nearly $200.9-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Desjardins over a data breach \u2014 the largest to date in the Canadian financial services sector.<\/p>\n<p>Siskinds Desmeules and Kugler Kandestin, the lawyers for the class members, say everyone affected by the breach, regardless of where they live, will be eligible to claim.<\/p>\n<p>Class members may seek compensation for loss of time that is related to the personal information breach, as well as for identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, class members who have not already registered for Equifax&#8217;s credit monitoring service will be able to do so for five years at Desjardins&#8217; cost, and maintain the other protective measures implemented by Desjardins following the breach for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>The federal privacy commissioner said in 2020 that a series of technological and administrative gaps caused the high-profile data breach at the financial co-operative, which he said did not demonstrate the level of attention needed to protect the sensitive personal information entrusted to its care.<\/p>\n<p>The incident compromised the data of 4.2 million people who had active accounts, Desjardins said.<\/p>\n<p>Class members do not have to take any steps at this stage. Notices containing instructions for making claims will be distributed over several months beginning around July 21.<\/p>\n<p>For at least 26 months, a rogue employee was siphoning sensitive personal information collected by Desjardins from customers who had purchased or received products through the organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-court-settlement-desjardins-data-breach-1.6493397?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court of Quebec has approved a nearly $200.9-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Desjardins over a data breach \u2014 the largest to date in the Canadian financial services sector. Siskinds Desmeules&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}