Ontario Elections Board Data Breach (2012)

Ontario's chief electoral officer has said the personal information of voters in as many as 25 ridings in the province has been compromised. Greg Essensa said at a Tuesday morning news conference that Elections Ontario can't account for two unencrypted memory sticks containing information about people who voted in last fall's provincial election. Two Elections Ontario staff members did not follow standard protocol when it came to handling that information, Essensa sai