Jaymee Salisi reports:
Following SFU’s data breach on February 3, 2021, BC law firm Slater Vecchio LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the university on behalf of the 200,000 individuals affected by the incident. The lawsuit argues that SFU students should have a higher safety standard for the storage of their personal information.
In Slater Vecchio LLP’s lawsuit notice, they said SFU failed to take preventative measures to protect the security of students as they were unable to adequately detect unauthorized collection of data.
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