by Admin | Aug 21, 2020 | Benefits Fraud, Featured, Online Fraud, Privacy Breach
August 21, 2020 – The public online services of the government of Canada were recently under a series of cyberattacks. So-called credential stuffing attacks mounted on the GCKey service and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) accounts to fraudulently obtain government...
by Admin | Jul 28, 2020 | Employee Fraud, Featured, Identity Fraud, Privacy Breach
Woodbridge (July 28, 2020) – The York Regional Police arrested a former 407 ETR employee, Varun (Bobby) Saini, on July 23 for internal data theft that allegedly occurred in 2018. He is accused of unlawfully obtaining the personal information of 60,000 407 ETR...
by Admin | Jun 5, 2020 | Cybercrime, Featured, phishing, Privacy Breach
Toronto (June 5, 2020) – Chartered Professional Accountants Canada (CPA) fell victim to a cyberattack. Their website was targeted and the personal information of more than 329,000 subscribers of CPA Magazine was breached including names, addresses, emails, and...
by Admin | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured, Identity Fraud, International Fraud, Privacy Breach
Washington (February 11, 2020) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced charges against four Chinese military hackers in connection with the massive Equifax breach of 2017. After a two-year investigation, the members of China’s People’s Liberation Army...
by Admin | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured, Identity Fraud, Privacy Breach
Toronto (December 18, 2019) – A cyberattack hit LifeLabs and accessed its computer systems with customer information. Canada’s largest private provider of diagnostic testing for health care identified the attack at the end of October. To date, the company estimates...
by Admin | Nov 8, 2019 | Featured, Identity Fraud, Privacy Breach
Gatineau (November 8, 2019) – The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recapitulates on one year of mandatory data breach reporting. On November 1, 2018, new regulations went into effect under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law. Since then the...
