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The January ice storm cost NB Power $4.1 million in overtime pay alone, according to the Telegraph-Journal. That doesn’t include the cost of replacing 600 hydro poles that snapped…mainly on the Acadian Peninsula.
NB Power says these costs won’t be downloaded onto customer’s bills, although they will affect the Crown Corporation’s net income for the year.
Ottawa has confirmed it was the Statistics Canada website that was hacked late last week. That prompted Revenue Canada to shut down its tax filing webste over the weekend as well, to make sure private information on Canadians wasn’t compromised.
A forensic investigation has been launched into the breach…but experts say it may be impossible to nail down a specific hacker or even identify the country where it originated.