2019 Year-End Cyber Security Review; 2020 Prediction
2019 Year-End Cyber Security Review; 2020 Prediction Only a few days left until 2020 arrives, LifeLabs disclosed that it paid ransom to cyber attackers to “retrieve” the personal information of its15 million customers – affecting nearly half of the population in Canada. This data breach, the largest to date in this country, gives a glimpse of what the cyber security situation in 2019 looked like and what lies ahead in 2020. LifeLabs Data Breach President and CEO of LifeLabs Charles Brown, in a statement, said that personal information of approximately 15 million customers wasillegally accessed on the company’s computer systems, with the vast majority of the affected customers from British Columbia and Ontario. Brown said that stolen personal information includes name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth and health…