CBC/Radio Canada warns employees their financial info may be at risk after theft
OTTAWA — Thousands of employees of Canada’s public broadcaster are being warned their personal information may have been compromised after a recent computer theft, the CBC said Wednesday.
“The stolen equipment, while password protected, may contain electronic files, including some personal financial information” of people who recently worked for the CBC and Radio-Canada, the Crown corporation’s chief financial officer said in an email.
Around 20,000 people could be affected, including current employees, outside contractors and some former employees who worked over the last 18 months, the broadcaster confirmed.
But a CBC spokesman would not say where or exactly when the theft took place, only that a piece of equipment was taken recently from “a secure area of a CBC/Radio-Canada space,” and that police were investigating.