TORONTO – Ontario’s privacy commissioner is investigating alleged breaches of the province’s change of address website, a spokesman says.
The investigation follows the discovery by a Southern Ontario man that his identity had been stolen by thieves who allegedly used a Service Ontario kiosk in Hamilton.
The thieves changed the man’s home address to that of a Niagara Falls, Ont., strip club. They also applied for a credit report.
The government has temporarily suspended the online licence address change service while it investigates the matter.
The privacy commissioner is also looking into the site, according to a spokesman.
 “We’ve had two complaints to date,” said Bob Spence.
More than 260,000 drivers' licence address changes were reportedly done using the service during the past year. Â
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