Equifax Faces Mounting Pressure After Data Breach As CAA Reveals 10,000 Clients Hit – Business – CBC News

Equifax Canada is facing intensifying calls for transparency on its massive cyberhack as the Canadian Automobile Association informs thousands of its members that their data may have been compromised and frustrated consumers ask questions about why they’re being treated worse than their U.S. counterparts. CAA said Thursday it partnered with Equifax on its identity protection program and is notifying the roughly 10,000 members who participated that they may have had sensitive data divulged in the security breach made public last week. The auto organization’s program required members to register their…

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Tax Worker Fired After Biggest Privacy Breach At Revenue Canada – Politics – CBC News

The Canada Revenue Agency has fired an employee for the biggest single privacy breach ever detected involving confidential taxpayer accounts. The employee improperly accessed the accounts of 38 taxpayers in detail, and briefly accessed another 1,264 accounts using a search function to find surnames and postal codes. The incident happened in an agency office in the Prairie region before March 23, 2016, when an investigation was launched, says an internal report. “No changes were made to any of the accounts,” says the document, obtained by CBC News under the Access…

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