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Canada
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Nissan Canada cyber attack; millions of customer accounts stolen
The automotive giant Nissan says its operations in Canada has been hit by a cyber attack in which personal data…
December 23, 2017
PayPal’s TIO Networks breach affects millions of customers
In July this year, the online payment giant PayPal announced buying Canadian bill payment management company TIO Networks…
December 4, 2017
Canadian hacker behind 500M Yahoo hack reveals Russian connection
In 2014, Yahoo announced that it had suffered a massive data breach in which 500 million user accounts…
November 29, 2017
VerticalScope hacked again; 2.7 million user accounts affected
In June 2016 we reported that the well-known Toronto, Canada-based Internet Media firm VerticalScope became a victim of…
November 6, 2017
Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, has made a malware scanning and analytics tool…
October 20, 2017
Phishing Scam: Hackers Steal $11 Million from Canadian University
A couple of weeks ago on August 23rd in Edmonton, Alberta; Canada based MacEwan University revealed that their staff…
September 7, 2017
Pervert arrested for taking candid photos of women, posting on Twitter
The authorities in Calgary, Alberta have arrested a 42-year-old who took photos of random women without their consent.…
June 19, 2017
Disruptive Ransomware Group ‘FIN10’ Hacked Casinos, Mining Firms
The FireEye cyber security firm has discovered that a number of Canadian mines and casinos were hacked by…
June 17, 2017
IXmaps Map reveals if your Internet traffic is being monitored by the NSA
A new interactive online tool named Internet Exchange Mapping (IXmaps) appeared earlier this week, and it shows if…
March 31, 2017
U.S. to Charge 4 Hackers Involved in Massive Yahoo Data Breach
The U.S. Department of Justice is gearing up to issue indictment orders against four hackers involved in cyber attacks…
March 15, 2017