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The truth is even sadder than you might expect (the rest of this post is a quote from this article[0]): Conrad said the breach was detected by a provincial emp
by amatecha 9y ago
The truth is even sadder than you might expect (the rest of this post is a quote from this article[0]):
Conrad said the breach was detected by a provincial employee, but it was a fluke.
“The employee was involved in doing some research on the site and inadvertently made an entry to a line on the site — made a typing error and identified that they were seeing documents they should not have seen,” Conrad told a technical briefing.
[0]: http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/04/11/halifax-police-probing-n-s-freedom-of-information-site-breach-government-says/ http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/04/11/halifax-police-probing...
- jessaustin 9y agoThere's a bit of a leap from that to knowing this dude had done the same thing? That describes the employee finding a vulnerability. It probably took some study of the logs to find "the breach". How many similar breaches by actors overseas and less-vulnerable Canadians did they ignore?