The federal privacy czar says hackers who attacked Canada’s National Research Council infiltrated a system containing personal information.
The privacy commissioner’s office says it was first informed of the breach on July 23 and further briefed on Monday — at which point the exposure of personal data was confirmed.
Lovely. Now the Canadian Government needs to come clean on what data was stolen and make sure that if the info of individual Canadians got out that they’ve been informed so that they can protect themselves. After they get done with that, they then need to tell Canadians how they will keep this from happening again. Because I am not sure that Canadians have the confidence that they need to have in the Government when it comes to cybersecuity.
NRC Cyberattack Targeted System With Personal Data
It’s bad enough that the National Research Council of Canada got hacked. But that hack may have become worse according to The Privacy Commissioner:
The federal privacy czar says hackers who attacked Canada’s National Research Council infiltrated a system containing personal information.
The privacy commissioner’s office says it was first informed of the breach on July 23 and further briefed on Monday — at which point the exposure of personal data was confirmed.
Lovely. Now the Canadian Government needs to come clean on what data was stolen and make sure that if the info of individual Canadians got out that they’ve been informed so that they can protect themselves. After they get done with that, they then need to tell Canadians how they will keep this from happening again. Because I am not sure that Canadians have the confidence that they need to have in the Government when it comes to cybersecuity.
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