TORONTO — Freedom Mobile confirmed Tuesday it had a data security breach from late March to late April, but the wireless carrier said only about 15,000 customers were affected — far fewer than an outside research firm's estimate. However, the blog was posted under the title "Report: Freedom Mobile Customer Data Breach Exposes 1.5 Million Customers" based on the assumption that hackers could access unencrypted data from all of Freedom's customer base. "The internal systems of Freedom Mobile or (parent) Shaw Communications were not compromised as part of this third-party vendor security exposure," the company said in a statement. It said the breach affected customers at 17 retail stores who opened or changed accounts as late as April 15 or made changes to opened accounts on April 16. Privacy commissioner awareValerie Lawton, of the federal privacy commissioner's office, said in an email that it had received a breach report related to Freedom Mobile late Monday afternoon.

Source: Huffington Post May 08, 2019 14:36 UTC