Mr. Cormier said an employee who broke company rules for data protection was behind the breach, and has been fired.The head of a financial services company that suffered a major leak of data on 2.7 million of its clients wants governments to work with businesses and ordinary Canadians to find new, more effective ways to protect personal information.
Mr. Cormier said an employee who broke company rules for data protection was behind the breach, and has been fired. John McKay, the Liberal chair of the committee, told The Globe and Mail he would have preferred for committee members to have asked the Quebec-based financial institution more “tough-minded” questions about the leak. He said the committee isn’t much further ahead on understanding how it occurred and what the consequences are.