This article contains some more responses from the CEO of Portpass:
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In an interview with IT World Canada on Wednesday, CEO Zak Hussein acknowledged “issues” are being investigated by two cybersecurity firms. But asked if the reports by CBC and CTV news indicate a serious privacy breach, he initially replied, “No. Our firm is looking to see if this is true.”
Faced with the report that CBC News said it was able to see information on dozens of users and asked if that was a serious privacy breach, when pressed Hussein said, “If there are, of course it is. So we’re waiting to get the audit to say exactly how many people, if that is accurate. I don’t know yet. I’m trying to wait to figure out exactly if this was done, how many.”
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Asked what the controversy has done to the Calgary company’s reputation, he replied, “it obviously, definitely hurt. We want to apologize if there are any issues. We’re going to also try to see if these things happened and why.”
“I want to get it right,” he said at one point. “I need to get every detail ironed out. If there are any flaws, we can’t have any. I was reassured by our app developers things were OK.”
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https://www.itworldcanada.com/articl...stioned/459380
I'm not sure what's so hard to understand. A CBC reporter was able to access confidential data... that's a breach. And if you don't know what failed or how that breach occurred, maybe you shouldn't be in a business that involves sensitive personal information.