Privacy Breach

• Regina police officer caught committing 67 privacy breaches using police database

  Regina police disciplined an officer for repeatedly accessing personal data of six citizens without authorization 67 times throughout the course of three years.

  Canada

  Dec 18
  
• Manitoba Families reports potential privacy breach after CFS office broken into

  Friday evening, Manitoba Families reported the "potential breach is the result of a break-in that occurred at a CFS office in Winnipeg on Jan. 26 at 1:42 a.m."

  Investigations

  Jan 26, 2024
  
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• Hamilton apologizes for ‘information breach’ that exposed delegates addresses, phone numbers

  The city says it's reached out to Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner after discovering an online breach that impacted individuals registered for public meetings.

  Canada

  Jan 23, 2024
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• PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012

  Between 2011 and early 2012, former employees at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre inappropriately accessed the personal information of approximately 280 patients.

  Health

  Jun 15, 2023
• Kingston Police shut down media portal

  Kingston Police have shut down what Acting Chief Scott Fraser called an 'antiquated' media portal after a privacy complaint from a citizen and concern for police officer safety.

  Canada

  Jun 6, 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
• Extent of MOVEit software breach in N.S. still unknown, Microsoft blames ransomware

  Officials in Nova Scotia are still trying to determine how many people had their data stolen through a global privacy breach to a third-party file transfer system called MOVEit.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2023
• Nova Scotia investigating theft of personal info through file transfer service MoveIt

  In a news conference on Sunday, Cyber Security and Digital Solutions Minister Colton LeBlanc said the province is yet to determine how many Nova Scotians have been impacted.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2023
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• Campbellford Memorial Hospital employee makes ‘unauthorized’ access to 3,500 patient records

  "It was their own clinical education purposes and they didn't realize it was a form of access that was strictly prohibited," says hospital president and CEO Jeff Hohenkerk.

  Health

  Apr 21, 2023
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• Around 360K people in Ontario affected by COVAXon privacy breach

  The ministry said in over 95 per cent of cases, only names and/or phone numbers were impacted in the breach.

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2022