Credential Stuffing
By only relying on a single authentication factor, not doing any risk base authentication (ex: known device for authentication) and user’s negligence (leveraging same username and password across multiple sites) the threat agent was potentially able to:
• Impersonate a user and change his personal information (banking information, address, security question and answers, etc.);
• Apply for Employment Insurance (when CERB wasn’t available);
• Apply for Canada Emergency Response Benefit through CRA Linkages;
• Change the banking information of pensioners;
• Apply for Grants;
• Submit Record of Employment for given social insurance numbers;
• Change employers contact information.