More than 75,000 have signed an online petition calling on the federal government to replace social insurance numbers compromised by identity theft.
The petition was launched on change.org last week by Pierre Langlois, a private citizen, who says the recent theft of confidential information of nearly 3 million members of the Mouvement Desjardins increases the risk of identity theft for all of the victims, possibly for the rest of their lives.
Langlois thinks the government should not abandon those victims and that a quick solution to part of the problem would be to replace their social insurance numbers until a more permanent fix that will better protect all Canadians is found.
The security breach at Mouvement Desjardins affected 41 per cent of its clientele, 2.7 million individuals and 173,000 business customers.
Apart from social insurance numbers, the breach also scooped up names, birth dates, addresses, telephone numbers, emails and details on banking habits.
Passwords and PIN numbers were not compromised, according to Mouvement Desjardins.
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