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“For customers who are concerned, LifeLabs has offered to cover one year of data protection that includes dark web monitoring as well as identity theft insurance.”

That’s it? If I was Canadian I’d want to see execs going to jail and or their contract yanked. If they switched over to using a webapp or chromeos on the desktop things would probably be much more secure.

But that’s not going to happen, cuz it’s owned by the pension system.

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Yeah, it's disgusting. I'm not sure how "1 year" of "fraud protection" coverage and the like became the defacto response of corporations who suffer breaches.

Also wonder how motivated they are to do security right if insurance covers it: In an interview, LifeLabs CEO Charles Brown said the company had purchased cyberinsurance, but did not provide details on the coverage.

It makes me sad to see Marriott, Equifax and others skipping along with stocks at near record highs and little long-term impact from their incidents.

The whole "one year of data protection" thing is always a joke. It's not like my demographic information changes every year. There's a reason those sorts of records are worth so much on the black market—they're incredibly durable.

Does anyone know what “dark web monitoring” actually involves, and what sorts of firms provide this kind of service?

It's called Snake Oil Consulting Inc and the sorts of firm that has very very good contacts to the federal gubmint...

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.

Canadian here and one who has records potentially leaked.... In terms of reaction, I dunno... It depends where on the spectrum of We kept our "passwords on sticky notes on Windows XP monitors" to "We did everything industry best practices and then some" did they fall into.... I havent seen anything with respect to technical details.

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