{"id":651810,"date":"2026-05-06T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651810\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:44:11","slug":"st-johns-law-firm-proposing-class-action-lawsuit-against-canada-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651810\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Law Firm Proposing Class Action Lawsuit Against Canada Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Buckingham (VOCM News file photo)<\/p>\n

A local legal firm has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Canada Life for a data breach identified last month. <\/p>\n

Bob Buckingham Law has filed the lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. <\/p>\n

The incident is reported to have affected approximately 70,000 people across the country, including some in this province. <\/p>\n

It came to light locally through questions in the House of Assembly last week. At the time, Finance Minister Craig Pardy indicated that affected provincial government employees <\/a>had been notified. <\/p>\n

Buckingham says the incident occurred last month.<\/p>\n

He says the hacker accessed emails, names, dates of birth, gender, mailing addresses, earnings information, insurance plan details\u2026.all sorts of things of that nature.<\/p>\n

Stephen Barnes of Bob Buckingham Law says the case is about accountability, and \u201corganizations that collect and store sensitive personal information must take appropriate steps to protect that information.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bob Buckingham (VOCM News file photo) A local legal firm has filed a proposed class action lawsuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-651810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}