Continued efforts to restore Nova Scotia's freedom-of-information portal have revealed 11 other IP addresses were used to download personal documents that should not have been on the website. 154 people affectedThere were 53 people affected by the 900 downloaded documents who had sensitive information accessed; 154 people in total were affected by these 11 cases. The portal has been offline since mid-April when a government employee discovered the ability to access personal information that should never have been made public on the forward-facing website. MacFarlane said she has a constituent whose sensitive information was disclosed and is considering legal action. "Here we have, obviously, no real security or protection in place to secure private information of Nova Scotians.

Source: CBC News April 30, 2018 14:04 UTC