Canadian lab testing company LifeLabs paid a ransom to retrieve the stolen data. The company said it has fixed the system issues and added safeguards to protect customer information. The compromised customer information could include name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number and lab test results. The attack may have compromised the personal information of some 15 million customers, primarily in the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, which were hit by the attack in October. Privacy commissioners in Ontario and British Columbia said the company informed them of the breach on Nov. 1.”]

