Quebec’s most wanted<\/a> \u2014 was in Canc\u00fan, Mexico, at the time of his arrest. <\/p>\nThe SQ says Paquette will remain in custody in Mexico while extradition proceedings are initiated for his return to Canada, where he will face several charges under the Criminal Code, including:<\/p>\n
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Last Quebec suspect in Desjardins data breach arrested in Mexico<\/p>\n
Maxime Paquette was arrested in Canc\u00fan by Mexican authorities, according to Quebec\u2019s provincial police. He had been wanted since 2024 in connection with the massive Desjardins data breach, which affected nearly 10 million Canadians.<\/p>\n
According to the\u00a0SQ\u2019s website dedicated to Quebec\u2019s most wanted fugitives, Paquette carried out various fraud schemes with Desjardins member\u00a0and customer data from “illegitimately obtained lists.”<\/p>\n
“Between June 27, 2021, and June 30, 2021, he was in possession of identifying information associated with Desjardins customers that originated from the massive data breach at Desjardins in 2019,” reads the website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He also sold identifying information from the stolen Desjardins lists to several individuals and on the ‘Dark Web.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Desjardins data breach in June 2019 affected close to\u00a09.7 million Canadians. <\/p>\n
The leaked information included names, addresses, birth dates, social insurance numbers (SINs), email addresses and information about transaction habits. <\/p>\n
The SQ states that it collaborated with Mexican authorities, Quebec’s public prosecution service, Interpol and other national and international partners in connection with this arrest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-806907","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\/806907","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=806907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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