"Data Breach at Canada Post"
Canada's primary postal operator, Canada Post, confirmed Wednesday that it had suffered a data breach. The security incident occurred following a cyberattack on one of the Crown corporation's suppliers, Commport Communications, which provides electronic data interchange solutions. Following the cyberattack, Canada Post has informed 44 of its commercial customers that data belonging to more than 950,000 customers has been compromised. The exposed information dates from July 2016 to March 2019, and most of it (97%) contains the name and address of the receiving customer. The customer's email address and/or phone number were included in 3% of the compromised data. Canada Post stated that a detailed forensic investigation into the data breach had not turned up any evidence of compromised financial information.