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Giant Tiger customer data compromised in incident with third-party vendor

March 26, 2024 Tara Deschamps – The Canadian Press

Giant Tiger Stores Ltd. says contact information for some of its customers was compromised in an “incident” linked to a third-party vendor it uses. Alison Scarlett, a spokesperson for the Ottawa-based discount retailer, would not name the vendor on Monday

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Inadequate security led to breach that compromised Canadians’ info: watchdog

February 16, 2024 Jim Bronskill – The Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Government departments lacked adequate protections to fend off a “sophisticated and co-ordinated” cyberattack that compromised the sensitive information of tens of thousands of Canadians, the federal privacy watchdog has found. In a report tabled Thursday, privacy commissioner Philippe

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Nova Scotia privacy commissioner to investigate file-sharing cyber breach

December 8, 2023 The Canadian Press

HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s information and privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the theft of personal information from a file-transfer system used by the provincial government. In June, the government confirmed a cybersecurity breach involving a third-party system known

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Why it’s important to understand legal privilege after a breach

December 7, 2023 by Jason Contant

A recent court ruling in Australia concerning the primary purpose of a forensics report following a cyberattack serves as a crucial reminder about legal privilege for Canada’s cyber insurance market. In a Nov. 10 decision, the Federal Court of Australia

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Mitigation efforts continue at Suncor in wake of cyberattack

July 5, 2023 The Canadian Press

CALGARY – Canada’s top technical authority on cybersecurity says it is working closely with Suncor Energy Inc. in the aftermath of a high-profile systems breach at the energy giant. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says it can’t disclose details

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Northwest Territories government spent $716,000 to address cybersecurity breach

April 13, 2023 The Canadian Press

YELLOWKNIFE – The Northwest Territories government says it spent $716,000 to address a cyberattack in November. It says it signed two work orders under existing contracts to help with containment, investigation and response efforts. The territory says the cybersecurity threat

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Information of 360,000 people affected in Ontario COVID-19 vaccine data breach

December 12, 2022 The Canadian Press

TORONTO – The Ontario government began notifying about 360,000 people on Friday that their personal information had been part of a COVID-19 vaccine database breach that took place more than a year ago. The breach happened on Nov. 16, 2021

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Pot shop sales data was ‘misappropriated,’ Ontario cannabis distributor says

May 11, 2022 Tara Deschamps - THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – The Ontario Cannabis Store says a data breach involving some of its sales information is being investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police. Daffyd Roderick, a spokesperson for the Crown agency responsible for distributing cannabis from producers to pot

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Investigation launched into email breach at N.L. fuel company North Atlantic

April 26, 2022 The Canadian Press

JOHN’S, N.L. – A fuel company in Newfoundland and Labrador is investigating after an employee’s email account was breached and information was downloaded from the account. A release from NARL Marketing, which operates the North Atlantic outlets across the province,

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Cyberbreach at Rideau Hall was ‘sophisticated’ intrusion, internal documents reveal

April 19, 2022 Jim Bronskill - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – Newly disclosed documents reveal the breach of an internal computer network at Rideau Hall was described to senior government officials as a “sophisticated cyber incident” in the days before the public was told of the security lapse. Internal

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RCMP investigating hack of spy watchdog network involving theft of files, agency says

August 27, 2021 Jim Bronskill - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – The national spy watchdog says the RCMP is investigating a cybersecurity breach that resulted in the theft of files and the compromise of personal information. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says that between March 9 and

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Cyberattack may have exposed 500,000 files: Saskatchewan privacy commissioner

January 12, 2021 The Canadian Press

REGINA – A report from Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says more than 500,000 files with personal information could have been exposed in a ransomware attack on the province’s electronic health information network. The office started an investigation into the December 2019