Joanna Smith reports from Ottawa: An internal investigation at the Office of the Auditor General found that about 22 per cent of the encrypted USB drives entrusted to employees were lost, according to newly released documents. […] “The management of these USB drives was not strictly enforced. Employees were given IT Security information sessions on…
Category: Non-U.S.
EMC data security fails the old fashioned way
David Chernicoff writes: I received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday from EMC Corporation. It seems that at some point in the last two months of 2014 they managed to lose control of my basic personal information, including my date of birth and Social Security number — giving the ability to whoever acquired the…
Ca: Education ministry notifies police after website security breached and private email addresses obtained
Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Education reported that 5,000 Ontarians’ e-mail addresses had been acquired and leaked from its web site. The data were dumped on Pastebin, in a post that is no longer available. Today, the Brampton Guardian reports: The government said it has notified the Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the…
Benesse Holdings discloses yet another customer information data leak
Kyodo News reports more data leak woes for Benesse Holdings. The correspondence education provider is still dealing with the fallout from a data theft last June that affected 28.95 million customers when a systems engineer working for an affiliate, Synform, downloaded personal information, including children’s names, addresses and birth dates, onto his smartphone. In September, the government…
Ca: Computer network security breach at Limestone District School Board
CKWS TV reports: The Limestone District School Board’s information technology department is trying to find out how a folder with personal information on staff became public – albeit for a short period of time. The information concerns all current board employees and past employees back to 2001. A memo to all staff – obtained by…
Grace Hospital pharmacist ‘inappropriately accessed’ health information – Winnipeg Health Region
From the Winnipeg Health Region, this press statement: Proactive audit identifies patient information accessed inappropriately A proactive audit by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) has identified the personal health information of at least 56 individuals was inappropriately accessed by an employee who at the time was working within the Region. Following an investigation of…