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Update: Honda Canada breach exposed data on 280, 000 individuals
From: blitz <blitz () strikenet kicks-ass net>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:28:32 -0400
Interesting, what is Canada's policy on breaches of PII? Do they have a national policy or is it up to the provinces like it is the states here in the USA.? security curmudgeon wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217094/Update_Honda_Canada_breach_exposed_data_on_280_000_individuals Update: Honda Canada breach exposed data on 280,000 individuals Company says ID theft unlikely because no SSNs, driver license details, birth dates, bank details were compromised By Jaikumar Vijayan May 26, 2011 05:05 PM ET Computerworld - Honda Canada has notified about 280,000 customers in that country of a data breach involving the compromise of their personal data. The breach was discovered in late February. However the company only began notifying customers of the compromise earlier this month. An undated alert posted on the company's Web site said the incident involved the unauthorized access of customer names, addresses, vehicle identification numbers, and in the case of a small number of customers, their Honda Financial Services account numbers. Jerry Chenkin, executive vice president of Honda Canada, said Thursday the reason for the delay was because the company needed time to figure out the scope of the breach before it could begin notifying customers. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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