27 October 2026 - 08:06
Category: Breach
Loblaw Promises To Care After Huge Leak
Loblaw signed a compliance deal after a breach exposed two million Canadians' customer accounts. Here we go again with the grand apologies after the horse has already bolted.
Source: News release: Loblaw commits to strengthening security measures following privacy breach
The Full Story
Roughly two million Canadian consumers had their account data exposed during an unauthorized breach at Loblaw, because basic protection was clearly too much effort. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada had to drag a formal compliance agreement out of them just to initiate remedial measures. Our grand roadmap to safeguard data now relies on external technical audits and third-party oversight of their remediation program. Why do we even bother expecting corporate security to work before regulators wave legal sticks around.