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Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site

Posted by kdawson on from the didn't-need-that-old-identity-anyhow dept.

Joanna Karczmarek sends us news of a massive privacy breach in the Government of Canada passport website. "A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information — including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's license numbers — of people applying for new passports. ... The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser."

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  1. Are they incompetent? by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have got this gut feeling that Canadians in general are not that technologically sophisticated as Americans, though more government services are available on-line as compared to the US. That's a plus for them in my opinion.

  2. It's Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who cares?