Privacy and Information Security news stories affecting Canada and the Fediverse.
Photos of valid passports, staff payroll information and credit card statements were among the nearly 1 million files uploaded onto the dark web after a recent ransomware attack by a…
A Regina clinic has been directed to put a new process in place to protect patient health information after medical records being found in an alley prompted the involvement of…
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s privacy breach risk self-assessment will guide you through a series of questions that will analyze key details of the breach to assess…
Federal privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said the probe was launched after his office received a breach report from U.S.-based PowerSchool, which provides the affected software, and a complaint about the…
23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million…
The popular online tabletop and role-playing game platform Roll20 announced on Wednesday that it had suffered a data breach, which exposed some users’ personal information. In a post published on…