Description: A consultant, Jason Coulls, reports that he has discovered Scotiabank software and access codes on a website. Scotiabank is taking action, directing its technical team to remove the material. Scotiabank is reassuring the public that no problems will result to its 25 million customers.

Date:  September 20, 2019

Source:  cbc.ca

Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/scotiabank-data-1.5291511

Discussion points: 

 1) Do you bank at Scotiabank?

2) Have you ever been victimized in a data breach?

3) In chapter seven of Wiley’s Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision-Making , we learn about another sort of bank error at Scotiabank. Track this down in your textbook and discuss with your classmates how this error may have occurred.