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Quebec’s Family Ministry has ordered an external audit to examine how the personal information of thousands of Quebec parents and their children was hacked from a daycare-availability website managed by the Coopérative Enfance Famille.
The audit will be conducted in parallel with a police investigation launched after the hack was carried out last Saturday, Family Minister Mathieu Lacombe said Wednesday, describing the breach as “intolerable.”
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Lacombe said his ministry is ready to take over the administration of the site if necessary. Saying he was “extremely worried” by the breach, Lacombe did not wait for the audit’s conclusions to say that the Coopérative Enfance Famille had “not taken its responsibilities” in managing the site.
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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 8:57 AM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
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