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The controversial loss of personal data by the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is now being pursued through a class action lawsuit by the victims. Representatives of the federal office declared that one of their key hard drive has gone missing from a filing cabinet in early November, which allegedly contained personal information of almost 583,000 recipients of the Canada Student Loans program from 2000 to 2006. Lost information is believed to include names, birthdates, social insurance numbers, addresses and loan balances, hence it can be easily used to steal identities or access personal accounts.
The lawyer pursuing the law suit, Bob Buckingham from St. John’s, N.L., is representing numerous victims of the incident, whose information was contained on the lost hard drive. Buckingham has contacted several thousand affected people, majority of which are reportedly concerned about having to pay the cost of protecting their identity due to risk arisen after the data loss. Almost all victims are highly recommended to pay fees to their banks and credit companies for monitoring their accounts for signs of illegal activity.
Almost all the complainers believe that government shall be obligated to bear this expense because they claim that the government is at fault and not them. A citric of Liberal Human Resources, Rodger Cuzner, addressed a letter to the Minister of HRSDC, Diane Finley, on Thursday alleging that “this is simply unacceptable” as “Canadians should not have to pay for the mistakes of this government.”
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