B.C. education data breach: government can't find unencrypted hard drive

ssbtech · Sep 23, 2015

B.C. education data breach: government can't find unencrypted hard drive

The B.C. government is unable to locate an unencrypted backup hard drive that contains about 3.4 million records that can be linked to specific individuals, said Technology Minister Amrik Virk on Tuesday.

The hard drive contains student data from 1986 to 2009, including information on children in care, such as their health and behaviour issues.

While the minister called the breach "low risk," the B.C. information and privacy commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said it raised "very serious privacy issues," and has launched an investigation.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/virk-data-education-1.3238851

J_L · Sep 23, 2015

Unencrypted drive... More than just SMH, this may be personal for me.

Carver · Sep 23, 2015

"There's no doubt a mistake was made," said Virk. "First, in how the hard drive was created, and secondly, in how it was stored."
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This was not a HD a collection of cookie recipes on it was it

ssbtech · Sep 23, 2015

Here's an 11 page PDF outlining what was on the drive... http://www.cio.gov.bc.ca/local/cio/priv_leg/documents/reports/Education_Data_Breach.pdf

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