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Service Canada employee loses flash drive

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2008-06-28 23:18:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Service Canada Victims Canadian Residents Number Affected More than 1,500 Types of Data Name and Social Insurance Number Breach Description Service Canada recently sent a letter to 1500 individuals that where affected by a recent incident. It seems that a USB key, containing the names and social...
 
Tags: service canada, employee, service canada recently, canada, service canada employees, employee aware, practices, security practices, employee service canada
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Passport Canada As mandated by the Canadian Passport Order, Passport Canada is responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, recovering, and providing instructions on the use of Canadian passports Victims Certain persons applying for Canadian passports online Number Affected Unknown Types of Data...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Canadian farmer personal information on stolen CCGA laptop

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2008-06-08 19:32:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA Victims Farmers Number Affected 32,000 Types of Data social insurance numbers, bank account numbers and other data Breach Description OTTAWA, June 5 (UPI) -- Prairie farmers in Canada are upset the federal government waited two months to tell them a laptop...
 
Tags: information, laptop, financial information, confidential information, laptop affects, computer, strict security measures, ccga, laptop computer
 
 
 
 
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Two HSBC breaches with similar circumstances

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2008-06-02 09:40:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada Types of Data personal information" in Canada, and "credit card applications and overdraft review dates, photocopies of a passport, driving licences, a marriage certificate, bank account sort codes and account numbers" in the UK Breach Description Two breaches were reported in the past week affecting HSBC customers in Canada and the...
 
Tags: customers, bank customers, bank, bank officials, bank bag, bag, bank branch after-hours, street bank hsbc, street
 
 
 
 
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Privacy International's 2007 Report

2008-01-10 06:01:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Canada comes in first . Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report released Saturday Canada, Greece and...
 
Tags: surveillance, endemic surveillance societies, canada, watchdog privacy international, international rights, privacy records, international privacy, european union, governments introduce
 
 
 
 
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Thousands of Canadian Chrysler Financial customers at risk

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2008-04-30 22:04:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada United Parcel Service ("UPS Victims Canadian customers Number Affected thousands Types of Data names, addresses and social insurance numbers Breach Description TORONTO - The lending arm of the Chrysler Corporation says the U-P-S courier service may have lost a data tape containing personal information about thousands of its...
 
Tags: chrysler, chrysler financial spokeswoman, chrysler financial, lost tape, tape, chrysler financial claims, data tape, customers, tape drive
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Canada and New York Reference URL Star-Telegram Story Sacramento Bee Story Report Credit Barry Shlachter, Star-Telegram Response From the online sources cited above An international gang of cyber criminals hacked into OmniAmerican Bank's records, the bank's president disclosed Wednesday They stole scores of account numbers, created new...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance Best Practices

2008-03-13 09:09:10 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...Canada put out guidelines for respecting the privacy of employees, customers, and potential passers-by when using video surveillance. Occasionally, our team here at Forrester is asked about physical security measures which can fall outside our area of expertise. Other times, such as the following best practices, the suggestions are a specific...
 
Tags: video surveillance, privacy, privacy impact assessment, reason, business reason, business, images, individuals access, privacy commissioner
 
 
 
 
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If your computer is not secure, Bank may not pay

2008-04-10 16:17:52 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...canada.com Bank online security misleading, study finds Paul Van Oorschot, Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security at Carleton University, and Ph.D. student Mohammad Mannan, a specialist in Internet security, tested the standard banking claim of a 100 per cent online security guarantee against the fine print that makes it...
 
Tags: secure, canada, canada research chair, paul van oorschot, bank online security, student mohammad mannan, fine print, security requirements, internet security
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...Canada, where pirating of U.S. satellite services wasn't considered illegal until 2002, syndicates of dealers did enough business that they could afford to chip in about $50,000 to hire a programmer to reverse engineer the latest cards. Pirate cards would sell for about $200 each, with the profit split between the investors and engineers....
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds