Quebec Police Arrest Three in $9-million Fraud, Data Theft Case Involving Desjardins

Published on June 12, 2024

Montreal-area police have arrested three people in connection with a major data theft and $8.9-million fraud involving the co-operative financial group Desjardins. Police in Laval, Que., say one of the suspects was caught with a list of personal data for 1.6 million Quebecers. The arrests are tied to a 2019 data theft that targeted more than 9.7 million Desjardins clients in Canada and internationally, including almost seven million Quebecers. Police say the three suspects used the stolen data to commit fraud totalling $8.9 million between September 2018 and January 2019. Two of them, aged 33 and 36, are scheduled to appear in court today, while a court date for the third has not been set....

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