Desjardins CEO Guy Cormier said that about 1.8 million credit card holders who are not Desjardins members may have had their personal details exposed. Cormier told reporters that the since-fired employee who leaked the data had access to banking details but said there was no sign of the information being shared with third parties.
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Canada’s Desjardins Breach Hits Another 2 Million People
Desjardins, Canada's biggest federation of credit unions, revealed last month that a data breach, first disclosed in June, had affected about 4.2 million of its individual members. Now, the potential scope has widened considerably. So reports the Montreal Gazette.
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