{"id":198911,"date":"2019-12-17T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/cyberattack-exposes-information-of-15-million-lifelabs-customers-in-b-c-and-ontario.html"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:31:46","slug":"cyberattack-exposes-information-of-15-million-lifelabs-customers-in-b-c-and-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/cyberattack-exposes-information-of-15-million-lifelabs-customers-in-b-c-and-ontario.html","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack exposes information of 15 million LifeLabs customers in B.C. and Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<p>LifeLabs, the Canadian laboratory testing company at the centre of a\u00a0cyberattack targeting millions of customers, says\u00a0it has\u00a0consulted with experts to retrieve customers&#8217; sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">a letter to its customers<\/a>, LifeLabs wrote that it takes its responsibility seriously and has taken measures, after consulting with experts on cyberattacks,\u00a0to retrieve the sensitive data by making a payment.<\/p>\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-4001351\"><\/section>\n<p>The letter does not indicate where the attack originated, nor does it say to whom the payment was made.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario\u00a0and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia issued a statement about a breach affecting\u00a0millions of\u00a0LifeLabs customers.<\/p>\n<h2>Logins, passwords affected<\/h2>\n<p>According to the release, the names, addresses, email addresses, customer logins and passwords, health card numbers and lab test results of 15 million people in both Ontario and\u00a0British Columbia were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u00a0reported the\u00a0potential cyberattack to the two provincial offices\u00a0 on Nov. 1, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first incident involving\u00a0Lifelabs\u00a0computer systems. In January 2013, the medical information of thousands of patients in Kamloops, B.C., went missing.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until June that year\u00a0that the company admitted\u00a0it had lost track of a computer hard drive, which\u00a0held the information of more than 16,000 patients.<\/p>\n<p>The hard drive held the results of electrocardiograms\u00a0gathered at three\u00a0 facilities between 2007 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>LifeLabs said privacy commissioners\u00a0are already\u00a0investigating the latest cyberattack, and while the company\u00a0has taken steps over the years to strengthen its cyber defences,\u00a0it will provide one free year of identity theft insurance, including\u00a0dark web monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>LifeLabs is Canada&#8217;s largest provider of general diagnostic and specialty laboratory testing services.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/lifelabs-cyberattack-15-million-1.5399577?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeLabs, the Canadian laboratory testing company at the centre of a\u00a0cyberattack targeting millions of customers, says\u00a0it has\u00a0consulted with experts to retrieve customers&#8217; sensitive information. 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