Every year, I expect to see a certain number of breach reports involving tax/wage statements. Here’s another one: VOCM News has learned that there has been a major privacy breach in Central Newfoundland. Employees with Municipal Affairs in Gander got their T4 slips in the mail yesterday. VOCM News has been told that four people…
Category: Non-U.S.
Computer error causes privacy breach for 700 Ontario welfare and disability recipients
Donovan Vincent and Richard J. Brennan report that an error involving Ontario’s Social Assistance Management System resulted in 720 assistance recipients having their social insurance numbers and benefits amount for 2014 sent to their former trustee instead of to them. The Ministry of Community and Social Services confirmed that a breach involving the T5 forms…
Rogers statement on hack by TeamHans
A spokesperson for Rogers sent DataBreaches.net the following statement about the hack reported here yesterday: A single email address of one of our enterprise sales employees, who managed a small number of medium business accounts, was accessed last week by a third party due to human error (not system error). The third party was able…
“Short” hack at computer chip firm ASML
Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: Chip manufacturer ASML has confirmed in a short statement that their IT systems has been hacked. The company states that immediate action was taken and that they are conducting an investigation. At this time it is unclear who is responsible for the hack. Read more on NLTimes.
IE: Data breach from University of Limerick student village
Cillian Walsh reports: The bank account details and PPSN numbers of over 350 residents at the University of Limerick’s Kilmurry Student Village were leaked to the public earlier this month. On the evening of Friday, February 6, an email with an attachment containing the bank account details, including Sort Codes, BIC numbers and IBAN numbers,…
Play.com customers report spam following breach at third-party marketing firm
Network Security Report reports: Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of consumer goods, has suffered a security breach. In a warning to customers, Play.com has said that customer names and email addresses may have been compromised. Play.com is washing its hands of direct responsibility, claiming that a third party on its marketing communications team…