Cybersecurity
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Privacy commissioner investigating provider behind Crime Stoppers data breachCanada’s privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into a cybersecurity breach involving anonymous tips shared with Crime Stoppers programs across the country.Canada11 hours
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More Ontario police forces pause Crime Stoppers use after cyber breachPolice in Halton, Peel and York regions, Hamilton and Kingston have announced suspensions after Toronto Crime Stoppers paused its phone, online and app-based tip intake.CanadaOct 23
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Toronto Crime Stoppers pauses tips after cyber breach affects 176K submissionsToronto Crime Stoppers has paused tip intake after a cybersecurity breach potentially exposed identifying information included in some submissions.CanadaOct 22
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‘No indication’ of Canadian data compromised by global PHP issue: officialsThe Canadian government’s chief information officer says there’s no sign a massive global website coding vulnerability has led to federal information being compromised.TechOct 22
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Ottawa taking down some federal websites over critical global vulnerabilityDevelopers of the PHP programming language said they had identified two critical vulnerabilities, and urged users to update their sites as soon as a fix was released.CanadaOct 21
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More Rewards customer data accessed in cybersecurity breach, Pattison Food Group saysThe Pattison Food Group, which operates the More Rewards loyalty program through its Save-On-Foods, Buy-Low Foods, and others, detected unusual activity on one of its servers.TechOct 17
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Burnaby school district says cyberattack may have leaked student, parent infoThe Burnaby School District says in a notice that the ransomware attack it suffered on Sept. 21 affected school websites and portals, internal network services and phone lines.PoliticsOct 15
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AI hacking will be more common if changes aren’t made, scientists warnDozens of Canadian academics are among an international group of scientists calling for better containment measures for AI models.TechOct 13
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Online fashion retailer ASOS says hackers accessed customers’ personal dataThe hack exposed some customers' personal information, including names and contact details, according to a preliminary investigation launched by the U.K. based online retailer.TrendingOct 8
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Risk of info leaked ‘low’ after cyberattack against force: Kingston policeThe breach, which happened when a hacker used “compromised account credentials” to access internal systems, led to the extraction of approximately 160 GB of data, police said.CrimeOct 2
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