Telus says it’s investigating claims employee information was posted on ‘dark web’ | 24CA News

Telus say it’s investigating latest claims that some worker info in addition to firm supply code was posted to the “dark web” as a part of an information breach.

Telus director of public affairs Richard Gilhooley confirmed the investigation in a press release to Global News on Friday afternoon.

“We are investigating claims that a small amount of data related to internal TELUS source code and select TELUS team members’ information has appeared on the dark web,” he mentioned.

Gilhooley mentioned the Vancouver-based telecommunications firm launched an investigation “as soon as it was made aware of the incident” however has not but responded to Global News inquiries about when it realized of the doable breach.

He added that, so far within the probe, the corporate “has not identified any corporate or retail customer data” as being concerned within the incident.

More to come back.