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Two Canadian banks reported that they may be targets of a hack after fraudsters claimed that they electronically accessed personal and account information.
Two major Canadian banks informed customers on Monday that they launched an investigation after hackers claimed to have obtained personal and account information as a result of a data breach. read more
Source code belonging to Canada-based digital advertising and software development company AggregateIQ has been found by researchers on an unprotected domain. The exposed files appear to confirm...
Canadian Charged With Selling Access to Stolen Logins, Earning $247,000Canadian police have charged a 27-year-old man with running LeakedSource, which sold access to 3.1 billion stolen login...
An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit. read more
A 22 year-old Canadian national accused of carrying attacks on Yahoo pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. read more
Equifax revealed on Tuesday that the recent data breach affects roughly 100,000 Canadian consumers, but the company’s systems in Canada were not compromised. read more
A class action lawsuit by Canadian consumers whose data was stolen in a massive hack of US credit bureau Equifax was launched Tuesday, seeking damages of Can $550 billion ($450 billion US). read more
MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, is the latest confirmed victim of scammers. “On Wednesday, August 23, MacEwan University discovered it had been the victim of a phishing attack. A series...
A string of data thefts targeting North American mining companies and casinos are extorting as much as $620,000 from victims.