Emera, Nova Scotia Power grapple with cybersecurity breach

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 11:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Emera and Nova Scotia Power accidental they are responding to a cybersecurity incident.

They accidental successful a quality merchandise that idiosyncratic gained unauthorized entree to parts of their Canadian web and servers supporting their concern applications. The breach was discovered connected Friday, according to the release.

The quality merchandise does not accidental what accusation was accessed, oregon what, if anything, was done with it.

It says determination is nary interaction connected the utility's quality to service customers successful Nova Scotia, and determination has been nary disruption to immoderate Canadian carnal operations specified arsenic Nova Scotia Power's generation, transmission and organisation facilities, the Maritime Link oregon the Brunswick Pipeline.

However, Nova Scotia Power posted to its societal media channels Sunday nighttime that it was having a "technical issue" with its telephone enactment and customers' quality to entree their accounts.

Emera's U.S. and Caribbean utilities person not been affected, the quality merchandise says.

When the breach was discovered, the companies took steps to isolate the affected servers and forestall further intrusion, and besides called constabulary and brought successful third-party cybersecurity experts.