LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians • Hacker News Board

Re: LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians

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Post by chx » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

aguyfromnb wrote: post #41

chx wrote: post #32

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Canadian here. I asked my federal MP why there are no criminal consequences and my provincial MLA why BC is not terminating their contract.

> why BC is not terminating their contract. To go where? Socialized healthcare creates monopolies. There are few competitors. You trust your data more to some upstart entity that doesn't yet exist?

There needs to be consequences or there will never be progress in cybersecurity. These guys leaked the most private data of every second Canadian, the CEO needs to criminally prosecuted and there needs to be financial consequences proportional to this catastrophe.

Re: LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians

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Post by gerbilly » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 8:14 PM UTC

ajlburke wrote: post #39

afthonos wrote: post #15

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“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” —Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

I like to think of Sisyphus a bit like someone waiting in line for a rollercoaster or a ski lift. The pushing is a slog, but then you reach the top and WOW BOOOM the rock cascades down the hill and it's AWESOME! Time to start pushing it back up again. Yes yes I know Sisyphus is a metaphor for the pointlessness of life - but that doesn't mean you have to take it at face value.

> The pushing is a slog, but then you reach the top and WOW BOOOM the rock cascades down the hill and it's AWESOME!

In the original myth the rock rolls down alright, but it rolls down over our hero and then he has to go down and push it back up again knowing what will happen.

Re: LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians

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Post by jkaplowitz » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 1:06 AM UTC

allo37 wrote: post #24

jkaplowitz wrote: post #8

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Do they perform some back-office analysis function for Quebec's public health system, or is this get another way Quebec is different from the rest of Canada? Here in Quebec we generally get our blood drawn for tests at a local public clinic called a CLSC, and can eventually view the results in a public government web system, but I'm not sure where the actual analysis happens.

In my experience, the CLSC sends your blood to a nearby hospital's lab for testing. We also have CDL which does private testing.

Makes sense. So not LifeLabs either way?