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Fair Vote Canada data breach (2024)

In March 2024, the Canadian national citizens' campaign for proportional representation Fair Vote Canada suffered a data breach. The incident was attributed to "a well-meaning volunteer" who inadvertently exposed data from 2020 which included 134k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses,…

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Fair Vote Canada
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134.3K
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CountryCanada

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2024-03-02, Fair Vote Canada was affected by a data breach. Approximately 134,336 accounts were exposed. In March 2024, the Canadian national citizens' campaign for proportional representation Fair Vote Canada suffered a data breach. The incident was attributed to "a well-meaning volunteer" who inadvertently exposed data from 2020 which included 134k unique email addresses, names, physical addresses,…

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#FairVoteCanada
  2. fairvote.cahttps://fairvote.ca

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