Canada's biggest provider of specialty laboratory testing services said it paid hackers an undisclosed amount for the return of personal data they stole belonging to as many as 15 million customers.
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The incident response, company President and CEO Charles Brown said in a statement, included "retrieving the data by making a payment." The executive added: "We did this in collaboration with experts familiar with cyber-attacks and negotiations with cyber criminals." The statement didn't say how much LifeLabs paid for the return of the data. Representatives didn't immediately respond to an email seeking the amount.
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The LifeLabs statement said that company officials have fixed the system that led to the breach. The company is providing a year of free identity theft monitoring and identity theft insurance. Affected customers can sign up for the help here.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/clinical-lab-pays-hackers-for-the-return-of-d
(Score: 3, Funny) by darkfeline on Thursday December 19 2019, @09:13AM (1 child)
This sounds like an idea for a new industry. We will hack into your computer and back up your data for you, just pay us if you need the data back.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @02:31PM
This devious thought is how cloud computing for john doe came to be.