Medical biz LifeLabs fesses up: Hackers slurped 15 million customer records – and we paid them to hand it all back

Medical biz LifeLabs fesses up: Hackers slurped 15 million customer records – and we paid them to hand it all back

Stick a fork in 2019, we're done, eh


Canadian medical testing specialist LifeLabs says miscreants were able to break into its corporate network and access systems containing the sensitive and personal records of 15 million customers.


While most of the files contained basic information, such as names, home and email addresses, dates of birth, login passwords, and health card numbers, an additional 85,000 customers also had the results of their laboratory tests, conducted in 2016 or earlier, exposed, we're told.


"The vast majority of these customers are in British Columbia and Ontario, with relatively few customers in other locations," LifeLabs CEO Charles Brown told customers this week.


"In the case of lab test results, our investigations to date of these systems indicate that there are 85,000 impacted customers from 2016 or earlier located in Ontario; we ..

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