Millions of patients, mostly in Ontario and B.C., may have had their information accessed in the late October attack, according to a statement Tuesday from Canada’s largest medical lab-testing company. The information exposed included names, addresses, email addresses, health card numbers and lab test results. The company said it made a payment to retrieve the data. (The Logic, Global News)
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Millions of patients, mostly in Ontario and B.C., may have had their information accessed in the late October attack, according to a statement Tuesday from Canada’s largest medical lab-testing company. The information exposed included names, addresses, email addresses, health card numbers and lab test results. The company said it made a payment to retrieve the data. (The Logic, Global News)
Talking point: In the statement, LifeLabs’ president and CEO Charles Brown, said the company has notified the provinces’ privacy commissioners, and that they were investigating. The statement disclosed the hack breached the lab results of 85,000 Ontario patients from 2016 or earlier. Brown said that the risk to customers from the data breach was low, and that there was no evidence of “any public disclosure of customer data as part of their investigations, including monitoring of the dark web and other online locations.” The company, which is owned by OMERS Infrastructure, didn’t specify who was behind the hack.
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