Regulator Plans Two-part Inquiry Into Last Year’s Cyberattack At N.s. Utility - Beritaja

Nova Scotia’s power regulator is readying a two-part enquiry into past year’s cyberattack astatine the province’s backstage powerfulness utility.

One group of hearings will analyse the method aspects of the March 2025 cyberattack astatine Nova Scotia Power wherever the individual accusation of 280,000 customers was accessed by a Russia-based actor.

The Nova Scotia Energy Board says a abstracted investigation will look astatine really the inferior collected and stored customer information and really it estimated bills aft losing connection pinch powerfulness metres.

Politicians person said immoderate of their constituents’ powerfulness bills person spiked since the attack, and Premier Tim Houston has criticized the inferior complete inflated bills and reports of consecutive charges wrong short periods.

Nova Scotia Power said past week that 75 per cent of its metres had been transmitting meticulous information by the extremity of January.

The inferior says each the metres will beryllium backmost online by the extremity of March.