Unprotected network exposed ‘highly sensitive’ documents, says Nunavut privacy czar – Nunatsiaq News
Feb 1, 2022
Nunavut’s information and privacy commissioner calls an unprotected government network drive he discovered last year a “privacy nightmare,” and says most of the departments affected by the breach have done little to respond to the problem.
“I was shocked by what I was able to see,” Graham Steele said to Nunatsiaq News, following his release of a Jan. 28 report about his findings.
Steele began a review following a complaint he received in July about a file-sharing system called the “V: drive,” which allowed Government of Nunavut employees to share information between departments.
Each Nunavut community had its own drive, and, when used correctly, it limited who could see files to those with correct permission. But the drive was “often used incorrectly,” and when this occurred, any GN worker from that community could view any document contained within.
