Brief: Canoe.ca informs users of data breach

TVA

12/09/2017 18:23

Sept 12 (Reuters) - TVA Group Inc  TVAb.TO : 
    * Notice of Canoe.ca data breach 
    * Canoe.ca informs users that some of its databases 
containing records from period of 1996 to 2008 have been 
breached 
    * Canoe.ca launched a thorough investigation and found no 
evidence that compromised data contained any financial 
information 
    * No data collected after 2008 has been compromised 
    * Informed RCMP, office of privacy commissioner and all 
relevant provincial privacy commissioners of security breach 
    * Breached data did contain personal information pertaining 
to about 1 million anglophone, francophone users of Canoe sites 
from period in which breach occurred 
 
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