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Canadian data breaches in 2015: Big firms weren’t the only targets

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Dissent

Howard Solomon reports:

Of all the publicly-disclosed data or privacy breaches in this country in 2015, one topped them all by a wide margin: Ashley Madison.

With over 30 million records exposed from the dating site, a $578 million class action suit filed against parent Avid Life Media, the CEO resigning after his emails were published, the attack is easily one of the largest reported in Canadian history.

But it’s easy for infosec pros to sit back and think, ‘Thank Gawd my company isn’t such a big fat target.’ Instead, they should remember all of the smaller breaches that happened this year as a lesson that corporations and government departments aren’t the only targets. Here’s just three of them:

Read more on IT World Canada, where Solomon actually mentions a number of incidents, including a few you may not have heard about.

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