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CRA locks 800K accounts after possible email 'Phishing' schemes

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 13 Mar, 2021 04:26 AM
  • CRA locks 800K accounts after possible email 'Phishing' schemes

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says it has locked roughly 800,000 accounts after a routine check found that the login information was available to "unauthorized individuals."

The tax agency says impacted users will be locked out of their accounts as a preventive measure until they create a new user ID and password.

Officials say the accounts were not compromised as a result of a breach of the agency's online systems.

Instead, the federal agency says the login information may have been obtained by unauthorized third parties and through a variety of means by sources external to the CRA, including email phishing schemes.

The statement comes less than a month after the tax agency said an unspecified number of user IDs and passwords may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals, "through a variety of means by sources external to the CRA."

In February the federal agency said accounts had not been compromised by a cyberattack but were locked as a preventive measure. 

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