CRA demands payment on scammed federal benefits — from the victim whose account was hacked

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Justice Mounsey is living a financial nightmare, battling a constant onslaught of identity thieves applying for credit cards, loans and more under his name after hackers got hold of his personal information from a government website three years ago.

And as if that’s not enough, that same department is forcing the Toronto man to clear his name over and over again. 

The personal and financial information of thousands of taxpayers, including their bank account and social insurance numbers ended up in the wrong hands after the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and other government service websites were hacked in the spring or summer of 2020.

Since then, fraudsters

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