CRA Online Services Shutdown After Cyberattack Exposes Thousands of Accounts

Source: David Lao, cbc.ca, August 17, 2020

In two separate incidents, about 5,500 CRA accounts were impacted as of Aug. 14.

The Canada Revenue Agency has temporarily disabled its online services following news of two separate cyberattacks that compromised thousands of its accounts.

In a statement Sunday, the CRA confirmed that online services were being disabled as an “additional precaution,” on top of the links between its My Account and My Service Canada also being shut down temporarily. The CRA has not provided a timeline for when the online services would be restored.

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