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Tax worker fired after biggest privacy breach at Revenue Canada

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Dissent

Dean Beeby reports:

The Canada Revenue Agency has fired an employee for the biggest single privacy breach ever detected involving confidential taxpayer accounts.

The employee improperly accessed the accounts of 38 taxpayers in detail, and briefly accessed another 1,264 accounts using a search function to find surnames and postal codes.

Read more on CBC.


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