The personal information of almost 13,000 public servants was exposed in one of the largest ever privacy breaches at a federal government department. Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien received at least three complaints arising from a massive privacy breach on July 11, 2016, at Public Services and Procurement Canada. The department reported the breach to Canada's privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien, more than a month later, on Aug. 19, 2016. The July 2016 privacy breach was at least the third at PSPC in the space of about a year. The centre's dysfunctional Phoenix payroll system was responsible for at least two major privacy breaches in 2015 and 2016.

Source: CBC News June 02, 2017 09:00 UTC