Government of Nova Scotia

DISCLOSED 2023-06-06 · UNPATCHED CVE

The Government of Nova Scotia confirmed that personal information of employees from Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health Centre, and the public service was stolen in the global MOVEit cybersecurity breach. The investigation indicates that social insurance numbers were among the data accessed. The breach is part of the wider exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in MOVEit...

The record

What we know

Disclosed

2023-06-06

Attack vector

Unpatched Cve

Sector

Government

Country

Canada

Domain

novascotia.ca

Data classes exposed

social insurance numbers

ColdRecon assessment

Could a positive-security control have prevented this?

Verdict · unclear · opinion

The breach involved a zero-day in MOVEit Transfer, a file transfer application, not an endpoint. A positive-security model on endpoints would not have prevented exploitation of the server application.

Our assessments are opinion, grounded in the cited public facts. Read them critically.

Sources

Cited reporting

↗ news.novascotia.ca (2023-06-06)

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