St. Thomas Police announced they temporarily paused participation in the local Crime Stoppers program after a cybersecurity breach involving its third-party anonymous tip collection platform. Police said in a news release on Friday, Oct. 23, they paused participating in the St. Thomas-Elgin Crime Stoppers program following a breach of Navigate360’s “P3” platform, which Crime Stoppers […]

LONG SAULT/ORILLIA – The Ontario Provincial Police is pausing its promotion of the Crime Stoppers program province-wide following a cybersecurity incident by a U.S.-based data provider.  Navigate360, a third-party company that managed all of the Crime Stoppers’ international tips — including that of the OPP programs like Seaway Valley Crime Stoppers — confirmed its systems […]

Winnipeg police say they’ve suspended the use of Crime Stoppers in light of a massive data breach of the crime-reporting system. The pause comes after CBC reported that 1.5 million tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years were stolen earlier this year.  Winnipeg police say they have been made aware […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics said it learned of a cyber breach of one of its systems this week, likely compromising some records for patients. In a Thursday regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported “unauthorized access” to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders and receive […]

A prominent Alberta separatist has shared an online claim that the provincial NDP used its access to the province’s voter list to request hundreds of thousands mail-in ballots for this month’s referendum. The claim includes an edited video of NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi talking about the party’s access to the list. However, a former chief […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started when a court employee clicked a malicious link in an email. The Arizona Supreme Court said the information was copied for 1.3 million people with unpaid court fees, fines and restitution […]

An Alberta country music singer wants more from Elections Alberta after a letter was leaked by former workers who raised concern about how the Water, Not Coal petition was validated. “It sort of verified that what we had heard from our lawyers was consistent with what they were saying,” said Lund. The letter, which Great […]

BERLIN (AP) — A cyberattack tapped the data of some 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of people behind companies and foundations in the wealthy principality, the government said. The “register of economic beneficiaries” was accessed at night from Wednesday into Thursday last week, the government said. It said that the breach was noticed on Thursday, […]

Lawyers for an Ontario man accused of stealing and leaking Texan Republican Party data in 2021 say he has pleaded guilty before a Canadian court. In a statement released this afternoon, Arash Ghiassi and Riaz Sayani say Aubrey Cottle has “formally accepted his role” in the hacking of the party’s website five years ago.  Ghiassi […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s attorney general sued the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe on Thursday, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected nearly 7 million people across the country. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co., which 23andMe rebranded under after […]

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil. Elizabeth Polo was in a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate shouted, […]

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption tied to a cyberattack hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. […]