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Fewer than 100,000 Bell Canada customers affected by data breach

The company has alerted some customers that personal information including names and email addresses may have been illegally accessed.

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TORONTO—The RCMP has launched an investigation into a data breach at Bell Canada that appears to have compromised customer names and email addresses, but no credit card or banking information.

Bell Canada spokesperson Nathan Gibson told The Canadian Press that “fewer than 100,000 customers were affected.”

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