Third-party data breach affecting Canadian government could involve data from 1999

The government of Canada has confirmed its data was accessed after two of its third-party service providers were attacked. The third parties both provided relocation services for public sector workers and the government is currently analyzing a "significant volume of data" which could date back to 1999. No formal conclusions …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Data retention

It's funny how any emails or DMs involved in a government fsckup are gone a week later, but they have to keep 25 year old staff expenses receipts online

[RobThBay]

Copied not stolen

Why do these stories always say the data was stolen?

The data is still there, so it was copied rather than stolen.

[Sandtitz]

Re: Copied not stolen

The thieves stole the originals and left copies in place.

[stiine]

Re: Copied not stolen

The Thomas Crown Affair, 'eh?

[tmTM]

Re: Copied not stolen

I think the Mr Bean movie is probably closer to reality.