Data Breach
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Is your password on the ‘most common’ list? You might be surprisedNew research shows the most common passwords are not safe enough to protect individuals' data online, especially among younger users.TechNov 19
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Canadian Tire says recent data breach may have hit online shoppers’ infoThe company says the breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Équipeur and Party City.ConsumerOct 14
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Wealthsimple says some SINs accessed in ‘data security incident’Wealthsimple says some Canadian clients have had their personal data — including Social Insurance Numbers — compromised in a 'data security incident.'CrimeSep 5
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Ontario health agency begins informing patients about months-old data breachOn Friday, Liberal MPP Adil Shamji published a letter which indicated the data of some 200,000 patients using Ontario Health atHome had been compromised in March.HealthJul 2
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Bid by 23andMe’s former CEO to buy company given greenlight by courtFormer CEO Anne Wojcicki's nonprofit TTAM Research Institute will purchase “substantially all” of San Francisco-based 23andMe's assets for US$305 million.U.S. NewsJul 1
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Ontario health agency ordered to inform patients of major data breachPremier Doug Ford, his health minister and the IPC all appeared to confirm the data of patients using the Ontario Health atHome service may have been breached earlier this year.PoliticsJun 27
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Thieves gain access to about 140,000 social insurance numbers in NS Power databaseNova Scotia Power's CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility's customer records.CanadaMay 29
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Class-action lawsuit filed against Interior Health over 2009 data breachThes Interior Health Authority is facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2009 that allegedly compromised thousands of employees' personal information.HealthMay 23
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The PowerSchool data breach is now under a Canadian privacy investigationMore than 2.77 million students were impacted by the PowerSchool data breach, according to numbers provided by multiple school boards.CanadaFeb 11
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PowerSchool data breach now at 2.4M Canadian kids. How to protect yourselfThe number of students confirmed to have been impacted by the PowerSchool data breach has risen to 2.4 million, and it's expected to grow as more data is released.CanadaJan 23
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