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"The situation is evolving quickly but at this time, there is no
impact on RCMP operations and no known threat to the safety and
security of Canadians," a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police told reporters on Friday afternoon.
"While a breach of this magnitude is alarming, the quick work
and mitigation strategies put in place demonstrate the
significant steps the RCMP has taken to detect and prevent these
types of threats," the spokesperson added.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they launched a probe
into the attack and were trying to determine the extent of the
breach, adding there were no known impacts on intelligence
services.
Further details were not immediately known.
The Canadian government said late last month that its foreign
affairs department had suffered a data breach and that there had
been unauthorized access to personal information of users
including employees.
Global Affairs Canada said at the time it had activated an
unplanned IT outage on Jan. 24 to "address the discovery of
malicious cyber activity."
Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand said last year that the
country's critical infrastructure was increasingly being
targeted by cyberattacks, posing a significant threat to the
economy of the world's fourth-largest crude oil producer.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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