inform employees concerned: employers should inform employees on what personal information they’re collecting, why they’re collecting employee data, and what they’re doing with it obtain employees’ ...

Time and frequency: Instant alerts on suspicious activity, such as an employee accessing data over the weekend, are now sent based on when and how often sensitive HR records are being accessed.

Currently, employee data are governed by separate legislation from customer data, with weaker protections, and companies often view their obligations with employment record retention in mind, ...

A hacker gained access to a Verizon employee database through a social engineering attack. They want the company to fork over $250,000, but the company claims the information isn’t sensitive.

The database that was hit contained a plethora of information: customer names, encrypted passwords, email passwords, physical addresses, phone numbers, and birthdays.

Telus say it’s investigating recent claims that some employee information as well as company source code was posted to the “dark web” as part of a data breach.. Telus director of public ...