Online news and entertainment portal Canoe.ca recently revealed that several of its databases containing user records have been breached.
More specifically, user records from the period of 1996 to 2008 were left exposed due to the breach, the company explained in a release.
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Canoe.ca first learned of the data breach on September 02, at which point the media company immediately launched an investigation into the matter and found no evidence that the compromised data contained any financial information (such as credit card numbers or social insurance numbers).
The databases breached contained records such as names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and telephone numbers. The information was provided by users participating in Canoe.ca’s contests, forums, comment pages, or in the hosting of personal pages.
Information collected after 2008 was not compromised, the company confirmed.
“About one million Anglophone and Francophone users of the Canoe sites,” were affected by the breach, the company noted.
“Canoe.ca takes data security very seriously and would like to reassure its users that it has taken all necessary steps, with the help of recognized data security experts, to remediate this data breach,” the MediaQMI company said in a statement.
“It has also informed the RCMP, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and all relevant provincial privacy commissioners of the security breach.”
The company apologized to its users and has asked anyone concerned about the data breach to call its hotline.
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