Canoe.ca says information for one million users hacked
Canoe.ca says databases breached contained annals including names, email addresses, mailing addresses and write numbers. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
News and party website Canoe.ca says some of its databases containing a personal information of about one million users from 1996 to 2008 has been hacked.
The association says a databases breached contained annals including names, email addresses, mailing addresses and write numbers.
The information was supposing by users for contests, forums, comments pages or a hosting of personal pages.
Information collected after 2008 was not compromised.
Canoe.ca, that schooled of a occurrence on Sept. 2, says there was no justification that a compromised information contained financial information, such as credit label numbers or amicable word numbers.
The association says it has sensitive a RCMP, a Office of a Privacy Commissioner and a provincial remoteness commissioners of a breach.
It pronounced anyone disturbed about a information crack should call 1-833-370-2898.
Canoe.ca is operated by MediaQMI Inc. (TSX:TVA.B) and was owned by Sun Media Corp. before 2015.
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