TORONTO - A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against medical services company LifeLabs over a data breach that allowed hackers to access the personal information of up to 15 million customers. LifeLabs has said the data hack affected up to 15 million customers, almost all of them in Ontario and British Columbia. The lab results of 85,000 customers in Ontario were also obtained by the hackers, the company said. LifeLabs chief executive Charles Brown apologized earlier this month for the breach, which led the company to pay a ransom to retrieve the data. The company also assured the public that its consultants have seen no evidence that data from LifeLabs has been trafficked by criminal groups that are known to buy and sell such data over the internet.

Source: thestar December 29, 2019 21:59 UTC