Government of Canada hit by data breach after two contractors hacked
SpilloverSpillover from the Moneris incident · View original incident →The Government of Canada suffered a data breach as a result of hacks at two contractors. The Government of Canada disclosed the breach on 20 November 2023.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Government of Canada
- Original incident
- Canadian payment processor Moneris blocks ransomware attack
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Data breach resulting from hacks at two contractors
- Location
- Canada
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Timeline
- The Government of Canada disclosed a data breach resulting from the hacking of contractors.
- It came to light that the Government of Canada’s breach was linked to data breaches at two contractors.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Moneris incident.
Canadian payment processor Moneris blocks ransomware attack
In November 2023, Canadian payment processor Moneris was named as a target by the Medusa ransomware group. Moneris said it had blocked the ransomware attack.
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