Notes from the IAPP Canada: What Newfoundland and Labrador's breach data says about email risk
Breach data from Newfoundland and Labrador, presented at IAPP Canada, points to email as a persistent and significant vector for privacy incidents. The figures offer a ground-level look at how organizations in the province are actually losing control of personal information.
Why this matters: Email is the oldest risk in data protection and still one of the least controlled. People send the wrong attachment, copy the wrong person, or get phished, and personal information walks out the door. Provincial breach data is useful precisely because it is unglamorous — it shows what is actually happening in real organizations, not just in headline-grabbing hacks. If email keeps showing up in breach reports, that is not a technology problem. It is a process and accountability problem, and someone has to own it.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators
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