Category: Non-U.S.

Would we ever see people here suspended for a situation like Jane Chen reports: Two college officials in central China’s Hubei Province have been suspended from their jobs during a probe into an identification theft from a female student. The investigation was launched after Lin Lin, a student from Hainan Province, claimed an unknown girl…

James Wood reports: The leak of addresses from the SGI database to the Teamsters union was one of four substantiated cases of “inappropriate system access” this year, with another situation still under review, the Crown corporation says. There were an additional nine cases in 2009. The cases during the last year and a half have…

Several mortgage brokerages improved some privacy and security measures following a string of major data breaches, but failed to implement controls to raise the alarm about any future suspicious activity, a privacy audit has found. The audit by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) was launched after the brokerages reported 14 data…