According to an investigation by The Fifth Estate ‘s CBC and Radio-Canada, these hackers submitted hundreds of false statements and extorted $6 million before the scheme was discovered.
In a series of annual reports to Parliament, the Privacy Commissioner’s Office reported only a total of 113 privacy breaches within the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) during the financial years 2020 to 2024.
Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus denounces the government’s silence.
They hid the information from the public and from parliamentarians
, he said in an interview. We need to know what happened at the Canada Revenue Agency and especially why they hid the information from Canadians.