Security News > 2021 > May > Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack
Canada Post has informed 44 of its large commercial customers that a ransomware attack on a third-party service provider exposed shipping information for their customers.
Yesterday, Canada Post disclosed that a third-party supplier named Commport Communications suffered a ransomware attack where threat actors accessed data stored in their systems.
In total, the breach affected 44 Canada Post commercial customers and 950,000 receiving customers.
In December 2020, a ransomware operation known as Lorenz posted on their data leak site that they had breached Commport Communications during a ransomware attack.
While Canada Post states that at the time of the attack, Commport did not believe that any of their data was accessed, based on the leaked data, it appears that this was not the case.
Canada Post states that they have hired external cyber security experts to assist in the investigation and have notified the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
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