Passport Privacy Breach

Canadian citizens have been exposed to privacy breaches and possible identity theft through their passport website - Passport Canada, according to a report on the Toronto Globe & Mail:

... The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser.
"I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie Laning of Huntsville. "I'm just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else's name and somebody else's data."

That data included social insurance numbers, driver's licence numbers and addresses.

Also available were home and business phone numbers, a federal ID card number and even a firearms licence number....