[ISN] Security lapses at Stats Can

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:53:49 -0600 (CST)
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/01/10/16832711.html

By KATHLEEN HARRIS
QMI Agency
Toronto Sun
January 10, 2011

OTTAWA -- From lost laptops to stray confidential documents, Statistics 
Canada has grappled with several "serious" security breaches that have 
compromised sensitive personal information about Canadians.

Internal reports obtained by QMI Agency through Access to Information 
reveal a number of incidents in the past five years where the federal 
information-gathering agency has probed and quietly done damage control 
on security lapses.

There have been several cases of government-issued laptops containing 
confidential personal information stolen from employees' homes or 
vehicles. In at least two incidents, field interviewers had left a 
sticky note with the password with the portable computer.

One Toronto staffer left the completed questionnaire of another 
participant at a respondent's home instead of a blank one. Another 
employee faxed off a blank survey to a business -- but inadvertently 
included sheets of confidential information about two other businesses.

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