RCMP Foundation

The RCMP inadvertently sent an account of someone's suicide attempt to the wrong email chain, leaving the details in the inboxes of more than 160 people.

The email included the person's name and date of birth, details of the suicide attempt, the injuries they sustained and the name of the hospital where they were recovering.

The case started last winter when officers responded to an emergency call and collected the personal information of the victim.

Instead of sharing that information only with select members of the RCMP's senior management team, the sender forwarded it to the wrong proxy email address, which was linked to 130 Mounties' accounts.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-privacy-breach-suicide-1.5203645

"id": "RCM16561423",
"linkid": "rcmp-foundation",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "07/2019",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"