Recent reports indicate that Canada’s LifeLabs suffered a data breach in early November and that the company decided to pay the criminals for data recovery.
Hacking attacks are not only disruptive for the targeted companies and individuals, but also very threatening in regards to its victims’ privacy. This is why Canada’s largest provider of laboratory diagnostics and testing services, LifeLabs, admitted recently that it paid hackers who recently stole data from it.
The breach supposedly took place in early November, according to the company’s recent press release. They also admitted to paying the hackers in collaboration with experts and professional negotiators. For now, the company did not reveal how much it had paid for the data. As mentioned, the breach happened over a month ago, on November 1st. This was confirmed by the firm, but also by official documents filed with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. During the attack, hackers managed to breach LifeLabs’ defenses, and extract customer data. After that, they demanded payment in return for the stolen information. The breach affected more than 15 million of the LifeLabs’ customers, and hackers stole data such as customer names, emails, home addresses, health card numbers, usernames, and passwords. They also stole medical test results belonging to around 85,000 individuals.LifeLabs pays hackers to recover data of 15 million customers https://t.co/IUsavM12lR
— ZDNET (@ZDNET) December 18, 2019

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