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The Children’s Foundation warns of possible personal data exposure following outsourced IT breach

First reported · Last reported · 2 related reports

SpilloverSpillover from the Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society incident · View original incident →

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.

Key facts

Affected organisation
The Children’s Foundation
Original incident
Unauthorised network access and system encryption at Canadian child welfare agency
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Possible exposure of names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other personal information of people associated with the foundation
Cause / method
Unauthorised access and system encryption on the network of IT service provider Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society
Location
Canada

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Timeline

  1. It emerged that The Children’s Foundation had issued a privacy notice concerning a data breach at its IT service provider.
  2. It emerged that names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other information of people associated with the foundation may have been affected.

Original incident

This is spillover from the Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society incident.

2 related reports

The summary and key facts are written by AI from related reports and may contain errors. Check the original articles and the organisation’s official statements for accurate details.