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Peter Gregg, CEO of Nova Scotia Power, makes an appearance before the Nova Scotia legislature’s law amendments committee in Halifax on Oct. 31, 2022. The Canadian Press/Keith Doucette

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Nova Scotia Power’s CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility’s customer records.
Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities.