N.s. Utility Says Billing Issues Will Be Fixed In March — One Year After Cyberattack - Beritaja

Nova Scotia’s backstage powerfulness inferior says its automatic billing strategy that was disrupted by a cyberattack almost a twelvemonth agone should beryllium backmost to normal adjacent month.

Nova Scotia Power says it has been forced to estimate the energy bills of immoderate of its customers because its metres were not capable to transmit usage information to the company.

The Emera Inc.-owned inferior says a Russia-based character launched a ransomware onslaught successful March 2025 and accessed the individual and financial information of 280,000 ratepayers.

Premier Tim Houston has criticized the inferior complete reports of inflated bills and consecutive charges wrong short periods.

Nova Scotia Power says about 400,000 of its metres, about 75 per cent of the total, were moving and sending meticulous billing information to the inferior astatine the extremity of January.

It says the remainder of the 530,000 metres should beryllium moving again by March.

Nova Scotia Power says it has not been charging customers liking aliases precocious fees since the cyberattack.