OTTAWA--The federal agency charged with preventing the flow of money to organized crime and terrorist

OTTAWA—The federal agency charged with preventing the flow of money to organized caribbean vacation cruise hiv crime and terrorists had an encrypted laptop, hard copy reports and an unencrypted USB memory stick stolen in October, exposing the personal information of patrons to two Alberta casinos, including how much money they gambled.
The theft of information from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) is a first for the agency, which has detailed privacy regulations built into the legislation guiding its operations.
The encrypted laptop and reports were inside a locked briefcase that was stolen out of the locked trunk of a rental car in broad daylight while a FINTRAC employee had left the vehicle in a Calgary parking lot while apparently going for lunch. Thefts from parked vehicles is not an unusual occurrence in Calgary, but a briefing note for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says it isn t clear whether the theft was targeted.
Inside the locked briefcase was information on how two casinos and a dealer in precious metals and stones report transactions to FINTRAC and how they keep client information, in accordance with federal laws combatting money laundering and terrorist financing. There was no credit card or bank account information stolen, but other personal caribbean vacation cruise hiv data on Canadians were on the pages of the reports that went missing.
This theft included personal information, such as name addresses, date of birth and occupation, as well as the reference numbers of government issued identification documents used to ascertain the identity of patrons, the ministerial note reads. It also includes data such as the amounts patrons may have spent or received while at the casinos.
A spokesman for FINTRAC said Friday that the laptop contained caribbean vacation cruise hiv information on about 480 people, with about 290 more on the USB key or in the reports. Spokesman Darren Gibb said all 777 individuals affected by the breach were notified through registered letters caribbean vacation cruise hiv sent in early November.
The agency conducted an internal investigation and found a security procedure in the use of USB keys was not followed, Gibb said. As for the employee involved in the incident, Gibb said: Appropriate measures have been taken.
Gibb said the agency has changed the way it transports information and has put in place new technologies to reduce the risk of breaches, although he couldn t go into detail citing security reasons. Staffs were also reminded in two memoranda about the department and government policies about handling and securing information.
The revelation of another data breach at a federal agency had the opposition caribbean vacation cruise hiv New Democrats suggesting the Harper government continues to gamble with information on government operations and Canadians.
Preventing data breaches and shoring up cyber security has been an ongoing issue for the federal government, an issue that was brought to the forefront in the past 10 days with moves by the Obama administration to crack down on countries harbouring hackers caribbean vacation cruise hiv conducting corporate espionage, and a report suggesting the Chinese military hacked more than 100 Western companies in the past six years to steal corporate secrets, including two Canadian companies. With that backdrop, the federal Liberals on Friday asked the Commons national security committee to study cyber security.
In her most recent report, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart wrote that in 2011 she received caribbean vacation cruise hiv a record number of reported data breaches at federal agencies. In all, her office was made aware of 80 breaches in 2011.
Last year, her office was made aware of two breaches at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, including one where the personal information, including social insurance numbers of about 583,000 Canada Student Loan borrowers, was potentially compromised when employees noticed a portable, external hard drive was missing from national headquarters. That loss was made public two months after the device caribbean vacation cruise hiv was noticed missing on Nov. 5.
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