The Bank of Montreal (BMO) was the victim of a confidentiality incident, which was declared to the Commission for Access to Information (CAI) on January 29, Le Journal learned.
“We can confirm that this is an internal matter which has no connection with the recent cases of scams to which you refer,” the Bank of Montreal (BMO) limited itself to saying in an email. laconic transmitted to Newspaper.
End of March, The newspaper reported that around fifty BMO customers across the country decided to take class action after seeing sums stolen from their bank accounts, according to them.
“BMO could have notified me before withdrawing $15,000 from my checking account,” denounced Aselin Weng, a Quebec family doctor.
“External scams”
At NewspaperBMO said it understood “that this is an extremely difficult situation for any victim of this type of scam”, but that these were “external scams”.
Although the Commission d’access à l’information (CAI) confirmed it had received a confidentiality incident report from BMO on Tuesday, the financial institution was unable to provide further details on the incident at Newspaper.
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Center tracks all reported fraud in the country.
Provided by the Canadian Anti-Fraud Center