Nova Scotia Privacy Breach

• N.S. identifies thousands more victims of global data hack, including school workers

  Nova Scotia's cybersecurity minister Colton LeBlanc says an additional 13,000 active employees with regional centres for education had certain personal data stolen.

  Canada

  Jun 14, 2023
  
• Nova Scotia estimates up to 100,000 people affected by online security breach

  The province says social insurance numbers, addresses and banking information of current employees of the public service, including Nova Scotia Health and the IWK, were taken.

  Canada

  Jun 6, 2023
  
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• N.S. information commissioner says office legally hamstrung, short on resources

  Tricia Ralph's first annual report as commissioner highlighted a litany of continuing issues in Nova Scotia's privacy and information legislation.

  Politics

  Jul 15, 2020
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• High probability files downloaded in Nova Scotia privacy breach contained

  Internal Services deputy minister Jeff Conrad told the legislature's public accounts committee today that an investigation by AST confirmed that none of the files found on their equipment were private in nature.

  Politics

  Mar 13, 2019
• Here is everything we know about Nova Scotia’s FOIPOP website — 5 months after it was taken offline

  The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy website remains offline, displaying a "system unavailable" message to anyone who tries to access it.

  Politics

  Sep 3, 2018