Achi news desk-
More than five years after a massive data breach of personal information in Desjardins, Lovell police announced Wednesday afternoon that they have arrested three suspects.
Police are also “actively looking for a fourth person,” said Jean-Francois Roussel, assistant director of the criminal investigation branch.
In December 2020, two damning reports on the data breach that affected more than 9.7 million people in Canada and abroad in 2019, including nearly seven million Quebecers, concluded that Desjardins failed to meet some of its obligations under the law respecting the protection of personality. Information in the private sector.
The report by the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec noted that the bank “failed in its duty to limit access to personal information, especially that stored in shared libraries.”
The Desjardins employee who leaked the information was a member of the marketing team at Desjardins headquarters.
The Caisse populaire Desjardins sign is seen in Montreal on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The Canadian Press/Paul Caison
He had access to personal information that his access rights to the database did not allow him to obtain, the commission noted.
Contrary to the guidelines, this confidential information is kept in the libraries shared by all employees of the marketing team.
– More to come.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on June 12, 2024.
