Ashley Madison – 30 million records exposed from the dating site, a $578 million class action suit filed against parent Avid Life Media.

Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta – yielded members’ names, email addresses and association ID numbers.

A Calgary wine store had to pay $500 in Bitcoin to meet a ransomware demand or lose access to its database.
A Rogers Communications staffer was the victim of a phishing attack that led to the loss of a “small number” of business agreements, which included business name, address, phone number and pricing details of the corporate customers.

Ontario’s Education ministry acknowledged that 5,000 unencrypted email addresses of people who had left contact information on a site looking a workshop were exposed.

A Toronto luxury hotel managed by one of Donald Trump’s companies was one of seven in a chain hit by POS malware. An unknown number of customers have been warned that payment card account number, card expiration date and security code may have been copied.

Symantec said four unnamed Canadian firms were among 49 organizations in more than 20 countries hit by a group looking not for credit card information but corporate data and intellectual property.

Approximately 2,200 of General Motors Finance customers was “inappropriately accessed” by a former employee which may have been used to create phoney identification.

Records of nearly 30 University of Calgary employees were been fraudulently accessed.