{"id":926047,"date":"2026-10-09T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926047\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:10:10","slug":"canadian-mennonite-university-warns-of-data-breach-in-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926047\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Mennonite University warns of data breach in cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) said that a cyberattack on its IT systems has exposed sensitive information of students, staff and alumni.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg-based institution says data stolen includes addresses, social insurance numbers, employees\u2019 information going back to up to 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>CMU learned of the breach on Sept. 18 and reported to law enforcement. The school says it will also be filing a report with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The university it will be offering credit monitoring for affected individuals for two years to protect against identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is ongoing. More information can be found the university\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791515410_865_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) said that a cyberattack on its IT systems has exposed sensitive information of students,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-926047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}