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Guelph notifying staff whose private information was compromised

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Dissent

Tony Saxon reports that Guelph employees affected by a breach last month are being notified. The breach – an erroneous disclosure of employee information – has already cost the city’s CAO his job.

Early last month over 50,000 email items were accidentally given to a former city employee as part of an ongoing $1 million wrongful dismissal lawsuit early last month.

Court documents claim that included on a flash drive handed over to former building official Bruce Poole were many documents containing private and confidential information regarding city employees, including at least 30 performance reviews of staff.

Read more on Guelph Today.


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