A MOTHER’S savings were drained from her account after months of work after she had her son.
Alana Regnier and her husband Caleb saw $10,000 disappear from their account after a hacker attack.
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“It was really devastating, we were completely shocked,” said Alana complete blood count from his home in Calgary, Canada.
“We’re out of money.”
“These are years of economics and we have felt a lot of fear in the last few months, from gasoline to groceries.”
Alana’s money was transferred from her account at the Bank of Montreal, also known as BMO, without her authorization.
The mother has been saving $10,000 for a down payment on a house for herself and her family.
She also decided to work part-time after giving birth to reach her savings goal and now feels like time was wasted when she could have been with her baby.
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“It’s like my maternity leave was everything,” Alana said in a CBC Video.
“I only work part time
“Ultimately, you can make $10,000 from part-time work when your maternity leave is over and this is over.
“It’s upsetting because even personally making sacrifices to invest $10,000.”
Her husband, Caleb, is scared about the missing money and has worried about it every day since the incident.
“The fear is that what little money we have is still in our BMO,” Caleb told CBC.
“I am still afraid that the money is not safe.
“There are many sleepless nights.
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“Now I always have my phone on full volume and have set up all the alerts I can.
“And I will literally wait up at 3 a.m. because of a ring on my phone
“And I will be afraid that someone will easily access my account through BMO again.”
There were more than 100 Bank of Montreal customers who also had money stolen from their BMO accounts, CBC reported.
The agency asked BMO about the wire transfers and how it plans to fix them.
BMO insisted in a statement that it was “determined to help Canadians defend themselves against fraud.”
“We are always open to reviewing cases when new information becomes available and will contact our clients to discuss this matter.”
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