If you have an account with Wealthsimple, make sure to check your email. You may have been impacted by a cyberattack.

In an email sent to affected clients on Friday at 10:30 a.m. EDT, the online investment management service said that it had detected a data security incident on Aug. 30.

“We then acted quickly, and in a few hours, the issue was contained,” reads the email, which was shared by some clients on Reddit. “We learned that a specific software package that was written by a trusted third party had been compromised.”

Wealthsimple shared more details about the data breach on its website .

According to the company, the security incident resulted in personal data belonging to less than one per cent of its clients being accessed without authorization for a brief period. The financi

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