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Canadian Tire has disclosed a data breach affecting its online shopping database, exposing customer information tied to Canadian Tire, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Équipeur, and Party City accounts.

The company said on October 14 the breach was detected on October 2, 2025, when it found “unauthorized activity” in an e-commerce database. According to Canadian Tire, the hack was limited to that system and did not impact Canadian Tire Bank or Triangle Rewards data.

The exposed data includes names, addresses, emails, and years of birth, along with encrypted passwords and partial credit card numbers — the kind that appear on a store receipt. The retailer says the partial credit card info and encrypted passwords cannot be used to log into accounts or make purchases.

Fun. So this isn’t just Canadian Tire, it’s the e-commerce platform for the entire Triangle network that was breached.

I remember 1995 well… the year the Internet was sold to entrepreneurs.

I remember dialling in to an internet connected mainframe on a 300 baud modem. Elm for checking email, gopher for gopher sites, ftp for file transfer. IRC and usenet newsgroups.

Before the printing press was before organized timekeeping or most automated machines.

This meant there was plenty of space for introverts doing isolated manual labour that we now automate.

What did they do at the end of the day instead of visit at the pub? Probably collapse in exhaustion.

For those who had more power, there was always religious orders.

Back when this happened to me, I had three courses over three semesters that taught from the same $300 textbook.

By the time I got to the third course, they’d moved to a new edition.

So I went to the library and photocopied all the questions pages and the answer key. While I was there, I discovered the library also had the instructor’s manual, so I gave that a quick read too.

Oh, that’s not the only thing that’s changed; they’ve also randomly re-ordered the questions at the end of the chapters so that the old one COULDN’T possibly be used.

For some reason this reminds me of the Katniss interviews in Hunger Games….

The one I have on me. Which happens to be my Yubikey currently.

It all tracks perfectly with “rules for thee but not for me.”

I’ve got a single similar (yet not as potentially deadly) Canadian Tire story about the mechanic winging it and failing to inform.

Single because it’s the one and only time I’ve taken my car to a CT for servicing.

I just haven’t trusted since then that CT has the necessary processes and procedures in place to prevent stuff like this, instead leaving things up to the individual mechanic who is under pressure to just get the job done, and who feels anonymous under the CT banner.

It would be if SCOTUS hadn’t decreed that the POTUS is above the law while carrying out actions in an official capacity.

“We hereby enjoin you from doing the illegal thing you were doing, and decrease the fine we were going to give you for doing it.”

Interesting timing, as NSO is now owned by US investors.

That’s a great list of global media for me to ensure I’m watching.