OTTAWA--The federal agency charged with preventing the flow of money to organized crime and terrorist

OTTAWA—The federal agency charged with preventing the flow of money to organized crime and terrorists had an encrypted laptop, hard copy reports and an unencrypted USB memory stick stolen in October, exposing the personal information of patrons to two Alberta casinos, including how much money they gambled.
The theft of information from the Financial Transactions oahu vacation rentals and Reports oahu vacation rentals Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) is a first for the agency, which has detailed oahu vacation rentals privacy regulations built into the legislation guiding its operations.
The encrypted laptop and reports were inside a locked briefcase that was stolen out of the locked trunk of a rental car in broad daylight while a FINTRAC employee had left the vehicle in a Calgary parking lot while apparently going for lunch. Thefts from parked vehicles is not an unusual occurrence in Calgary, but a briefing note for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says it isn t clear whether the theft was targeted.
Inside the locked briefcase was information on how two casinos and a dealer in precious metals and stones report transactions to FINTRAC and how they keep client information, in accordance with federal laws combatting money laundering and terrorist financing. There was no credit card or bank account information stolen, but other personal data on Canadians oahu vacation rentals were on the pages of the reports that went missing.
oahu vacation rentals This theft included personal information, such as name addresses, date of birth and occupation, as well as the reference numbers of government issued identification documents used to ascertain the identity of patrons, the ministerial note reads. It also includes data such as the amounts patrons may have spent or received while at the casinos.
A spokesman for FINTRAC said Friday that the laptop contained information on about 480 people, with about 290 more on the USB key or in the reports. oahu vacation rentals Spokesman Darren Gibb said all 777 individuals affected by the breach were notified through registered letters sent in early November.
The agency conducted an internal investigation and found a security procedure in the use of USB keys was not followed, Gibb said. As for the employee involved in the incident, Gibb said: Appropriate measures have been taken.
Gibb said the agency has changed oahu vacation rentals the way it transports information oahu vacation rentals and has put in place new technologies oahu vacation rentals to reduce the risk of breaches, although oahu vacation rentals he couldn t go into detail citing security reasons. Staffs were also reminded in two memoranda about the department and government policies about handling and securing information.
The revelation of another data breach at a federal agency had the opposition New Democrats suggesting oahu vacation rentals the Harper government continues to gamble with information on government operations and Canadians.
Preventing data breaches and shoring up cyber security has been an ongoing issue for the federal government, an issue that was brought to the forefront in the past 10 days with moves by the Obama administration to crack down on countries harbouring hackers conducting corporate oahu vacation rentals espionage, and a report suggesting the Chinese military hacked more than 100 Western companies in the past six years to steal corporate oahu vacation rentals secrets, including two Canadian companies. With that backdrop, oahu vacation rentals the federal Liberals on Friday asked the Commons national security committee to study cyber security.
In her most recent report, oahu vacation rentals Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart wrote that in 2011 she received a record number of reported data breaches at federal agencies. In all, her office was made aware of 80 breaches in 2011.
Last year, her office was made aware of two breaches at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, including one where the personal information, including social insurance numbers of about 583,000 Canada Student Loan borrowers, was potentially compromised when employees noticed a portable, external hard drive was missing from national headquarters. That loss was made public two months after the device was noticed missing on Nov. 5.
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