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security breach
McDonald’s Canada says info of 95,000 job applicants compromised
April 3, 2017 The Canadian PressTORONTO – McDonald’s Canada says the jobs section of its website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the last three years. The company said Friday the accessed information included names, addresses, phone numbers, employment…
Court orders review of Target security breach settlement
February 3, 2017 David Pitt - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDES MOINES, Iowa – A Minnesota federal judge must hold hearings to determine whether a proposed settlement for about 100 million Target customers who were victims of a 2013 security breach treats all customers fairly, a federal appeals court says.…
One in three cyberattacks in the past year resulted in a security breach for Canadian companies, new Accenture survey finds
January 11, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterRoughly one in three targeted cyberattacks over the past year resulted in an actual security breach for Canadian companies, according to a new survey from global professional services company Accenture. Despite these breaches – which equate to three effective attacks…
Breach Notification
January 2, 2017 Greg Meckbach, Associate EditorFederal regulations requiring organizations to notify individuals of data breaches that could potentially expose them to harm will probably be in place this year and could cause an increase in class-action lawsuits, lawyers familiar with privacy laws suggest. The Digital…
Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting one billion users
December 15, 2016 Michael Liedtke - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSSAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed Wednesday…
More than half of Canadians believe their government-held personal data is at risk: Accenture study
May 11, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterMore than half of Canadians believe their personal and confidential information held by all levels of government is vulnerable to a security breach, whether it’s an unauthorized internal access or an external data hack and theft, according to results of…