The Finance Minister has confirmed that government employees have had their information compromised following a national privacy breach involving Canada Life Insurance.

Questions about the breach were raised in the legislature yesterday.

Craig Pardy says he cannot confirm the number of people affected, but says current core government employees and retirees are affected.

He says information like name, gender, address, and the number of their employee plan was impacted. He says the company did not see any major privacy concerns with the situation, and did their due diligence by notifying those affected.

Pardy says credit monitoring and a security package has been offered by the company.