The Canadian Press reports: Federal data breach regulations set to take effect Nov. 1 will require mandatory reporting of security breaches that pose a “real risk of significant harm,” but give businesses flexibility about how that’s done. Ottawa has rolled out the long-awaited requirements in a notice in the Canada Gazette that indicates the government…
Ca: 1,100 Hamilton residents’ emails compromised following data breach
Lisa Polewski reports: The emails of about 1,100 residents have been compromised following a data breach of two waste collection apps, according to the city of Hamilton. Municipal Media Inc., the service provider for Recycle Coach and My Waste, reported the data breach to the city and several other municipalities earlier this week. Read more…
TN: County Schools Testing Disrupted By Suspected Hacking of Questar
Eugenia Estes reports: Annual state-mandated assessment testing did not get off to the best start this week for many systems, including Greene County Schools, due to what is being investigated as a cyber attack on the company that handles online TN Ready testing for the state. Although there were some disruptions to the testing for…
Welcome new readers from Seton Hall Law
Welcome to all new readers from Seton Hall Law School and attendees at the Artificial Intelligence Conference this week. On this site, you’ll find news stories on data breaches from all sectors and from around the world. You’ll also find original investigations and reporting on breaches that you won’t find on other sites. Browse the…
What led to Nova Scotia’s privacy breach
CBC News has an update to a government leak incident noted previously on this site. This is a case where the government’s response to their security failure was to criminalize the behavior of the teen who downloaded what were freely available reports. When the public went up in arms over the government’s attempt to cast him…
SunTrust 1.5 million customers whose information may have been stolen by former employee
From their press release: SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) is now offering Identity Protection for all current and new consumer clients at no cost on an ongoing basis. Experian IDnotify™ will be provided to those who sign up for the service. SunTrust cares deeply about the privacy and security of client information. The company became…