Security News > 2020 > February > Canadian Government Breaches Exposed Citizens' Data: Report

The breaches, which had been unreported, only came to light in January when Conservative MP Dean Allison demanded that the country's federal government produce a report for the Canadian House of Commons, according to the CBC. The 800-page report contained details about agency breaches in 2018 and 2019.

In the report, the government admitted that agencies responsible for national defense, healthcare, tax revenue, postal service and immigration all sustained data breaches or accidentally exposed citizen data.

The new government report notes that the Canada Revenue Agency, which administers the country's tax laws, sustained the most data breaches - with over 3,000 incidents that affected 60,000 Canadians between Jan. 1, 2018 and Dec. 10, 2019, the CBC reported.

The government report notes that at least some of the information exposed in breaches may have been misused.

The news of numerous data breaches at government agencies comes despite Canada's effort to make breach reporting mandatory under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

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