Bell Canada is alerting customers after hackers illegally accessed the information of fewer than 100,000 customers, the telecom giant told CBC News. The information obtained in the latest breach included details such as names, email addresses, account user names and numbers, as well as phone numbers. Bell Canada confirms data breach, says hackers accessed customer information including names, email addresses and in some cases phone numbers and user names. pic.twitter.com/vbGyLCNstW — @CBCAlerts"We apologize to our customers and are contacting all those affected," said Bell spokesperson Marc Choma in an email. Wisniewski added that Bell was under no legal obligation to notify customers of the breach, because stolen email addresses are not considered personally identifiable such as a driver's licence or social insurance number.

Source: CBC News January 23, 2018 18:17 UTC