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A few months ago in Quebec we got a big cooperative bank "hacked" that way by an employee that got offered money by some insurance reseller.. He was able to export the data of 4.5 millions persons out and sell it to them. We recently found out that they were offering 40k$ to get it. Sure you could infiltrate them, but seems like even buying the data is quite accessible too.


Is that Desjardins? They got hit November 2019.

BMO and another org in 2018. BMO's security was atrocious, for a while they had you use your 4-digit pin to log into online banking. One of the reasons I ended up switching to Tangerine...




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