Canadian laboratory data breached, personal information of 15 million hacked
By MYBRANDBOOK
According to Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs, it had suffered a cyber attack that may have compromised the personal information of some 15 million customers, primarily in the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario.
The company had informed the privacy commissioners in Ontario and British Columbia of the breach on November 1. They are now jointly investigating the attack.
“LifeLabs advised our offices that cyber criminals penetrated the company’s systems, extracting data and demanding a ransom,” the commissioners said in a joint statement.
LifeLabs is Canada's largest provider of specialty medical laboratory testing. The compromised customer information could include name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number and lab test results, according to the company. It has however fixed the system issues and added safeguards to protect customer information.
The company said that the breach of lab test results impacted 85,000 customers from 2016 or earlier located in Ontario.
“I want to emphasize that at this time, our cyber security firms have advised that the risk to our customers in connection with this cyber-attack is low and that they have not seen any public disclosure of customer data as part of their investigations, including monitoring of the dark web and other online locations,” LifeLabs Chief Executive Charles Brown said in a letter to customers that the company released publicly.
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