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LifeLabs, Canada’s largest private provider of diagnostic testing for health care, was hit with a cyberattack sometime in October and paid a ransom to retrieve the stolen data.

Six weeks after discovering the breach, security experts hired by the company are still trying to figure out how much data was involved. The servers that were accessed contained information on 15 million Canadians, including almost four million in B.C., according to CEO Charles Brown.

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“This is still under police investigation,” Brown told Postmedia. “I just can’t talk about actual details of who did what, (or) how we got contacted (about the ransom demand).”

The information that cyber criminals might have had access to includes names, addresses, emails, patient login passwords, and health-card numbers.

Additionally, the company knows that lab results for 85,000 Ontario residents were also potentially compromised, Brown said.