Trust the experts.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have proven themselves incompetent and untrustworthy before, but never at this scale.
In 2021, the RCMP presided over a massive data breach. More than 2.2 million licenced firearms owners were affected.Names. Addresses. Contact details. Licencing records.
A veritable Christmas wish list for criminals, and everyone responsible for it stayed quiet.
This was not a minor IT mishap. It was a catastrophic failure of basic data stewardship.
The RCMP outsourced core functions of the Canadian Firearms Program to an unidentified third party. That vendor was hit with a ransomware attack. The RCMP insisted that, while there “was no indication that any personal information was viewed or extracted, it is not possible to confirm that it was not accessed.”
Read that again.
“It is not possible to confirm,” yet the RCMP chose to give themselves a full pass instead of holding themselves accountable.