Privacy Commissioner says priority given to examination of Equifax data hack
OTTAWA — Canada’s Privacy Commissioner office says it has prioritized an examination into the massive Equifax data hack to ensure that Canadians are protected against future risks.
In a posting on its website, it says it plans to work with data protection authorities in Canada and elsewhere to find out what went wrong.
It says it has asked the credit monitoring company to tell Canadians as soon as possible if their information was stolen and to adopt measures to help them.
Equifax said last Thursday a security breach occurred over the summer resulting in the private information of up to 143 million people in the United States being compromised, along with certain Canadian and U.K. residents.