CPA Canada discloses data breach affecting 329,000 individuals

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CPA Canada discloses data breach affecting 329,000 individuals
June 4, 2020
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Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) today disclosed that a cyberattack against the CPA Canada website allowed unauthorized third parties to access the personal information of over 329,000 members and other stakeholders.

CPA Canada is a national organization with more than 217,000 Chartered Professional Accountants as members and one of the largest national accounting bodies in the world.
Affected individuals warned of phishing scams
After discovering the data breach at a yet undisclosed date, CPA Canada contained the incident by taking measures to secure the compromised systems and notified the affected individuals after identifying them.

"The information involved predominately relates to the distribution of the CPA Magazine and includes personal information such as names, addresses, email addresses and employer names," the breach notification reads.
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The organizations says that passwords and full credit card numbers were also exposed in the incident but they were all "protected by encryption."
According to the organization, the attack on the CPA Canada website and the resulting data breach were discovered after a phishing campaign targeted its members in April.
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