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Canadian data breach causes Durham residents to 'not be another victim'

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Dissent

A follow-up to a breach first reported in December 2009.

Dan Raywood writes:

With every data breach there is a victim.

While it may often ‘just’ be a username, password or email address that is leaked, someone is bound to be affected. The announcement of a potential compromise of data could scare some more than others.

That said, some people are blase about data breaches so probably don’t really care. So in an ‘anonymous henchman’ style, does anyone really care about the victim?

Well maybe a recent class action suite could cause someone to take action. In a report I read recently, around 80,000 people are seeking $40 million in compensation for their data lost by the Canadian Durham region on an unencrypted USB flash drive.

According to durhamregion.com, the data was personal information about people who had been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. The class action suit was given the go-ahead by Justice Peter Lauwers of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in late April, with Bowmanville resident John Sherlock Rowlands appointed as the ‘representative’ of the class.

It said that among the claims in the suit are that the region was negligent, there was a breach of a fiduciary duty, violation of privacy and breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read more on SC Magazine.

 

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