The personal information of 2,551 individuals was inadvertently disclosed during a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.
Most of those affected are city employees, but 182 are members of the public.
It reviewed its processes and practices around personal information, and changed them to insure privacy is protected.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/3953870/guelph-privacy-breach-affects-2000/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-guelph
"id": "cit01218522",
"linkid": "city-of-guelph",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "01/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': ['City Employees',
'Public Members'],
'industry': 'Public Sector',
'type': 'Government'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 2551,
'type_of_data_compromised': 'Personal Information'},
'description': 'The personal information of 2,551 individuals was '
'inadvertently disclosed during a wrongful dismissal lawsuit. '
'Most of those affected are city employees, but 182 are '
'members of the public.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal Information']},
'response': {'recovery_measures': ['Reviewed and changed processes and '
'practices around personal information to '
'ensure privacy is protected']},
'title': 'Personal Information Disclosure Incident',
'type': 'Data Breach'}