{"id":6120,"date":"2021-05-28T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:04:49","slug":"950000-customers-targeted-in-canada-post-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/950000-customers-targeted-in-canada-post-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"950,000 Customers Targeted In Canada Post Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Canada&#8217;s main postal operator, Canada Post, recently announced that a third-party provider, Commport Communications, was the victim of a ransomware attack that allowed threat actors to access data stored in their systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The postal operator, which serves 16.5 million Canadian residential and business addresses, said the data retrieved included delivery data from major parcel service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also contains sender and recipient contact data, names, and postal addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, 44 commercial customers of Canada Post and 950,000 receiving customers were affected, according to the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Commport did not believe their data had been accessed, Canada Post disagrees stating that external cybersecurity experts were hired to help with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/canada-post-hit-by-data-breach-after-supplier-ransomware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Post hit by data breach following supplier ransomware attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}