Alanna Kelly reports: Shaw customers have been notified by mail about a security risk after a company laptop containing some people’s personal information was stolen months ago. In a letter to customers, Shaw Communications Inc. said the computer belonging to a Shaw employee was stolen on June 22. Read more on CTV. CBC News reported…
Unsecured backup devices continue to be a hot mess
After a few years of headlines blaring mega-numbers of records exposed by misconfigured RSYNC backups, we might hope that we would be seeing fewer errors by now. But it seems that RSYNC errors continue at a high rate, exposing massive amounts of data. This month, part of what I did was look at RSYNC errors…
Walla Walla, Wash., University Disrupted by Cyberattack
Sheila Hagar reports: Walla Walla University officials are investigating a campus-wide cyberattack that crashed online networks and phone lines this fall-finals week. School officials today referred to the hacking, discovered Monday, as a ransomware incident but did not confirm a monetary ransom was demanded. Read more on Government Technology.
Ticketmaster data breach victims make bid for Swift justice
Pavel Barter reports: Several legal cases have been filed in the Irish courts against Ticketmaster Ireland, following a 2018 data breach in which the personal and payment information of customers may have been stolen. On June 27, 2018, Ticketmaster sent an email to customers “who purchased, or attempted to purchase, tickets between February and June…
CRA loses box of ‘sensitive’ taxpayer information in truck accident
CRC News reports: The Canada Revenue Agency lost a bin containing Canadians’ tax information after the truck hired to transport the documents was involved in a highway accident earlier this year. The incident was just one of almost 150 privacy breaches reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in the first six months of 2019,…
Alectra confirms no data breach as originally reported by the City of Hamilton
Don Mitchell reports: Alectra Utilities says an investigation has turned up “no breach of customer information” as originally reported by the City of Hamilton in a statement released on Wednesday. In the release, the city said its water-related services, including meter reading, billing, payment, collections, and customer care services, managed by Alectra Utilities, may have…