Ontario’s privacy commissioner is investigating after thousands of medical prescriptions were found blowing around on a street in Gatineau last week. The prescriptions date from 1994, and they contained personal information about patients who used to be clients of what used to be Nelson Drugs on Main Street in Old Ottawa East. The prescriptions ended…
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Tax mix-up riles woman
Michelle Ruby reports from Canada: Darlene Clifford is concerned about her financial privacy after she received someone else’s RRSP tax receipt. The Brantford woman received her tax receipt, issued by Scotia Trust, in the mail last week. The top section of the three-part form contained her correct personal information. The middle and lower parts of…
‘Customer data from Vodafone, Unitymedia was stolen – report’
Customer data of Vodafone Germany and German cable network operator Unitymedia have been sold on the black market by dubious call centres, according to German magazine Capital citing from the investigation files of the state prosecutor’s office in Bonn. The stolen data concerns several thousands of customers. State prosecutor Fred Apostel confirmed that several telecom…
Arrest leads to large cache of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, computers
Florence Loyie reports: City police found a stash of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, debit cards and computers when they arrested a man wanted on 141 warrants last Friday. Officers in the downtown division special projects team were told David Shawn Tidman, 25, was at a residence near 145th Avenue and 27th Street. […] Police…
Wrong T4s accidentally mailed to former staffers of MPs
Mike De Souza reports: The House of Commons has launched an internal probe in the wake of an “administrative error” that resulted in hundreds of personal income tax forms mailed to the wrong addresses, Canwest News Service has learned. The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4…
Victim Asks Capital One, ‘Who’s in Your Wallet?’
Brian Krebs writes: In December, I wrote about how a Louisiana electronics testing firm was suing its bank, Capital One, to recover the losses after cyber thieves broke in and stole nearly $100,000. It looks like another small firm in that state that was similarly victimized by organized crooks also is suing Capital One to…