Canada Revenue Agency logs 2,338 privacy breaches in just under 2 years.
The personal, confidential information of over 80,000 individual Canadians held by the Canada Revenue Agency may have been accessed without authorization over the last 21 months.
But only a handful affected a large number of Canadians.
</p><p>Source: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4273925/cra-privacy-breaches-searches-documents/">https://globalnews.ca/news/4273925/cra-privacy-breaches-searches-documents/</a></p><p>TPRM report: <a href="https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/cra-arc">https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/cra-arc</a></p>
"id": "can17246822",
"linkid": "cra-arc",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "06/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 80000,
'industry': 'Public Sector',
'location': 'Canada',
'name': 'Canada Revenue Agency',
'type': 'Government'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 80000,
'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal', 'Confidential']},
'description': 'The personal, confidential information of over 80,000 '
'individual Canadians held by the Canada Revenue Agency may '
'have been accessed without authorization over the last 21 '
'months.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal', 'Confidential']},
'references': [{'source': 'Public Disclosure'}],
'title': 'Canada Revenue Agency Privacy Breaches',
'type': 'Data Breach'}