Hacker stole data on 1,000 Canadian officials from U.S. intelligence firm

About 1,000 federal and provincial officials were victimized by December’s vast cyber-theft of five million emails and other customer data from a private U.S. global intelligence firm, according to a federal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. 

Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.