I've never been to Canada and don't own a car. There is absolutely no reason the Canadian Tire company should have any of my data. But I'm still part of their data breach.
This is such a good example of why privacy is important: because your data is sold, and resold, and resold, to third party companies that are all potential victims.
Here I go wandering over to Wikipedia wondering if they own some American brands and I should be looking out for a similar email, but nothing jumps out at me.
Except apparently as of last year, they own the intellectual property of the Hudson Bay Company (est. 1670).
(PS, thanks for the block list! I just realized your name shows up on my computer nearly every time I click a link in an email.)
@IrrationalMethod The full breach notice gives more detail:
https://corp.canadiantire.ca/English/Cyber-Incident/default.aspx
"A data breach occurred in a specific e-commerce database that included customer accounts for Canadian Tire, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Équipeur and Party City."
Peter Lowe
irrational method