Bell Canada is alerting customers after hackers illegally accessed the information of fewer than 100,000 customers, the telecom giant told.

The breach comes just eight months after 1.9 million customer emails were stolen from Bell's database by an anonymous hacker. Bell is Canada's largest telecom company, with over 22 million customers. The information obtained in the latest breach included details such as names, email addresses, account user names and numbers, as well as phone numbers. Bell said there was no indication that credit card, banking or other information was accessed. 

All you wanted to do was download a game from the Internet, and the next thing you knew, your browser homepage had changed, an unwanted toolbar appeared, and you found yourself plagued by annoying pop-up ads that danced around your screen.

Such experiences should be less of a problem for Canadians thanks to new rules from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which came into effect last week. The new guidelines make it illegal to install programs on an individual’s computing device without the operator’s consent. The rules are designed to protect Canadians from damaging and deceptive forms of spam.

Telephone numbers, dates of birth, addresses and names of not only mothers but also their infants were sold as well.

Employees of medical facilities in Toronto sold data on 8300 patients to commercial companies at Toronto's Rouge Valley Hospital from 2010 to 2014. As Zecurion Analytics representatives reported the data belonged to young mothers, while staying at the hospital. Moreover, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, names of not only patients, but also their infants were sold. As for the buyers they were commercial companies that provide "services for the management of savings accounts for children's education (RESP- accounts)."

After exposing scandalous spy programs of American and British intelligence services, Edward Snowden leaked some info on the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSEC).

According to top secret documents, leaked by former NSA contractor, CSEC agents used public Wi-Fi in one of the biggest airports of Canada to track wireless devices of thousands of passengers for days when they left the terminal. Data, collected by the surveillance program, included hotel, cafes, restaurants and other public places visited by passengers, as well as means of transportation.

Canada’s intelligence agency deliberately kept the country’s Federal Court “in the dark” to bypass the law in order to outsource its spying on Canadian citizens abroad to foreign security agencies, a federal judge said.

Federal Court Judge, Richard Mosley, has slammed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for knowingly misleading him on numerous occasions.

Since 2009, Mosley has issued a large number of warrants to the CSIS, authorizing interception of electronic communications of unidentified Canadians abroad, who were investigated as threats to domestic security.