Unauthorised network access and system encryption at Canadian child welfare agency
Unauthorised access and system encryption occurred on the network of Canada’s Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society. The agency was providing IT services to The Children’s Foundation. The foundation announced that personal information belonging to people associated with it may have been affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised network access and system encryption
- Location
- Canada
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Timeline
- It emerged that The Children’s Foundation had issued a privacy notice regarding a breach at its IT service provider.
- Unauthorised access and system encryption on the service provider’s network became known, along with the possible impact on information belonging to people associated with the foundation.
Also affected by this incident
The Children’s Foundation warns of possible personal data exposure following outsourced IT breach
↳ Knock-on damage from the Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society incident · View original incidentImpact: Possible exposure of names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other personal information of people associated with the foundation
Unauthorised access and system encryption occurred on the network of Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society, the IT service provider for Canada’s The Children’s Foundation. The foundation issued a privacy breach notice because names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other personal information of people associated with it may have been affected.
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