In 2019, a ransomware attack hit LifeLabs, a Canadian medical testing company. The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable information (PII) of 8.6 million people was stolen.
After noticing the attack, LifeLabs informed its customers and the Canadian privacy regulators, which immediately announced an investigation. The privacy commissioners of both British Columbia and Ontario finished writing a report about the incident in 2020 but LifeLabs managed to hold that up in court for four years. Now the report is publicly available and some of the findings are both shocking and unsurprising.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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