Dean Beeby reports: Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to snoop on the confidential tax files of businesses, acquaintances and others, despite at least $10.5 million spent so far to try to stop them. CBC News has uncovered nine significant cases reported since Jan. 1 in which tax workers improperly poked around the government’s electronic records to…
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Personal information of more than 100 Quebec judges found in parking lot
CBC reports: A secret list containing the home addresses, phone numbers and names of spouses to dozens of Quebec Superior Court judges turned up in a parking lot, leaving the court’s spokesperson hoping no digital copies were made. […] St-Pierre says the list contained the personal information of 125 Montreal-based Superior Court judges. Copies of this confidential…
Hackers hit Thai sites to protest restrictive internet law
AP reports: Hackers saying they are protesting the passage of a bill restricting internet freedom have been attacking Thai government computer servers, temporarily disabling public access and reportedly copying restricted documents. A Facebook group called for people to deny access to government sites by repeatedly reloading them, a tactic that apparently forced the Defense Ministry…
DHS responds to hacking accusations from Georgia
There’s a follow-up to a headline-grabbing story earlier this month in which the State of Georgia accused the Department of Homeland Security of hacking its election database. Joe Uchill reports: DHS officials told reporters on a conference call Friday that the attempted entry came from an employee at the state’s Federal Law Enforcement Training…
Almost 800,000 to be notified because more than 100 Los Angeles County employees fell for a phishing attack
On a single day in May, 108 Los Angeles County employees fell for a phishing attack that affected approximately 756,000 individuals. Here is the press release issued Dec. 16 from the County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office: The County of Los Angeles today disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing email attack that potentially…
Ca: City of Greater Sudbury sorry for privacy breach
Sudbury Star reports: The City of Greater Sudbury has disciplined two employees and is apologizing for a sizeable breach of trust. The city has reported itself to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario for two instances of breaches of privacy related to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The breaches…