HALIFAX – Today at the Public Accounts Committee, Official Opposition Leader Claudia Chender will demand answers from Nova Scotia Power following their recent data breach.

New Democrats will support Nova Scotians impacted by the breach by introducing legislation in the fall to allow free credit freezes, modernize rules around the storage of personal private information, and update privacy legislation to better protect individuals whose information has been stolen.

Nova Scotia Power has offered two years of free credit monitoring protection for Nova Scotians affected by the cyber attack. Following the loss of public service information in the MOVEit breach, the government provided five years of coverage. Chender will press NSP to guarantee th…

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