Additional details regarding the compromised data have not been provided.
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization - which oversees investment and mutual fund dealers, as well as trading activity on the country's debt and equity markets - has confirmed being impacted by a cyber incident last week.
This resulted in the theft of personal information from its member companies and their workers, Infosecurity Magazine reports.
"Given the high standard of security that CIRO expects of both itself and its members, we are deeply concerned about this and know our members will be too,” said CIRO. “Our priority is to actively investigate which individual registrants may have been affected and once determined, to notify those individuals directly and provide risk mitigation services.”
Additional details regarding the compromised data have not been provided amid an ongoing investigation conducted alongside law enforcement and third-party cybersecurity and legal experts, according to CIRO, which has noted the continued operations of critical services while assuring the safety of Canadians' investments following the intrusion.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
