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Ca: Shockingly easy to obtain confidential information

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dissent

It seems you don’t need “friends in high places” to open doors for you in Saskatchewan.

How about a humble data entry clerk?

That’s apparently all it took for the Teamsters Union to obtain confidential personal information from the SGI [Saskatchewan Government Insurance] database which it then used to write to the home addresses of 25 FedEx workers it was trying to recruit in Saskatoon.

[…]

… obviously government security is flawed because this is at least the fourth time since 2002 that government workers have either improperly accessed confidential client information or have provided such information to unauthorized sources:

Read more in the Leader-Post.

Category: Breach IncidentsGovernment SectorInsiderNon-U.S.

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