City of Corner Brook

City of Corner Brook

Privacy breach happened on the City of Corner Brook's website.

Information possibly accessed through city's website includes dates of birth, addresses of voters.

Private information on its website was accessed by four different users.

The directory on the website contained information used in a previous voters' list, including name, address and date of birth of about 10,000 people.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/corner-brook-privacy-1.5429593

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/city-of-corner-brook

"id": "cit235771222",
"linkid": "city-of-corner-brook",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "01/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 10000,
                        'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'location': 'Corner Brook',
                        'name': 'City of Corner Brook',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 10000,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information']},
 'description': "A privacy breach occurred on the City of Corner Brook's "
                'website, potentially exposing personal information of '
                "approximately 10,000 individuals from a previous voters' "
                'list.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['dates of birth',
                                 'addresses of voters',
                                 'names'],
            'systems_affected': ["City of Corner Brook's website"]},
 'threat_actor': 'Four different users',
 'title': "Privacy Breach on City of Corner Brook's Website",
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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