Update 10 a.m.: Squamish London Drugs is open today.
Though not on the list released by the company, local Squamish London Drugs is open today, May 5.
—Original story—
London Drugs is fully reopening some stores, but Squamish's Garibaldi Village Shopping Centre location isn't on the list.
The company announced on April 30 that it had closed all its stores in Western Canada, due to "a cybersecurity incident."
In social media posts at the time, it said that "out of an abundance of caution," it was temporarily closing its stores, while its staff worked with third-party cybersecurity experts to bring operations back online.
Late Saturday, the company announced it was beginning a gradual reopening of select stores, but Squamish didn't make the cut.
The stores that are reopen in B.C. are:
• Gibsons
• Langley
London Drugs says phone lines are open at all stores now, and, as they have throughout this closure, pharmacists are standing by to help with urgent prescriptions and requests.
"We are taking the time with each store to ensure systems are working and ready to serve customers," the company said in its post. We ask for patience as we work with each store to ensure it is operating fully to meet the needs of our customers.
The company continues to say that so far, there is no evidence that any customer databases have been compromised due to the attack.
Squamish part of hack of libraries
Meanwhile, Squamish Public Library announced in its latest newsletter that it had been one of the libraries involved in a privacy breach of its system, but considered the risk to locals' privacy to be low.
The local library says the email addresses and phone numbers of patrons who had received automated notifications from the library system, such as checkout notices, overdue notices, or hold notifications, between March 27 and April 19, had been leaked.
"Only the email addresses of people who received notifications—or the phone number of people who received SMS notifications—were leaked," the notice says.
"The content of the notifications was not leaked. The leaked data does not say what the notifications were about, and it does not reveal any other information about patrons or their library use, such as checkouts and holds."
BC Libraries Co-operative (the Co-op), which provides Squamish Library with its integrated library system, Sitka, notified the local library administration on April 25 that a breach had affected all libraries that use it.
According to the Co-op's website, at least 100 libraries in Canada use the system.
Because of the breach, the library reminds patrons that it will never solicit personal information or passwords from users in text messages or emails.
"If you receive any message that appears to be from the library but is asking for any of these things, do not hesitate to follow up by calling us directly at (604) 892-3110," the local statement said.
