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Canada Life breach: 237,810 accounts exposed

In April 2026, Canada Life was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group . The group subsequently published the data which contained over 200k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and, in some cases, customer support tickets.

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What happened

In April 2026, Canada Life was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group . The group subsequently published the data which contained over 200k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and, in some cases, customer support tickets.

In their disclosure notice , Canada Life advised that "it is a small proportion of our customers who may have been impacted". In the wake of the incident, Canada Life also published an alert cautioning customers to be wary of phishing attacks , a pattern often seen after the public release of breached data.

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    Have I Been Pwned: Canada Life (opens a new tab)

    Verified breach loaded into Have I Been Pwned: account count, exposed data types, and dates.

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    Canada Life disclosure (opens a new tab)

    The organization's own breach disclosure, as linked by Have I Been Pwned.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, May 13). Canada Life breach: 237,810 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadalife

MLA

"Canada Life breach: 237,810 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 13 May 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadalife.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Canada Life breach: 237,810 accounts exposed." Last modified May 13, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-canadalife.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Canada Life breach: 237,810 accounts exposed (May 13, 2026).
In April 2026, Canada Life was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group . The group subsequently published the data which contained over 200k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and, in some cases, customer support tickets. In their disclosure notice , Canada Life advised that "it is a small proportion of our customers who may have been impacted". In the wake of the incident, Canada Life also published an alert cautioning customers to be wary of phishing attacks , a pattern often seen after the public release of breached data.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Canada Life: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/CanadaLife
Canada Life disclosure: https://www.canadalife.com/about-us/news-highlights/news/canada-life-recently-identified-a-cyber-incident.html
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-canadalife.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 26, 2026, 21:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-04-20; loaded 2026-05-13. Exposed data: Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Salutations, Support tickets. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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