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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday June 13 2019, @01:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-day-another-hack dept.

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A security breach at a billing company has resulted in nearly 20 million patients of LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics getting their information stolen from them. The breach was first disclosed Monday by Quest Diagnostics, which reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that a breach at third-party collections vendor American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) compromised 11.9 million customers. Today, LabCorp indicated that 7.7 million of its patients were also affected by the AMCA breach.

The attack targeted at AMCA's website is just the latest in a series of breaches that have managed to skim personal information from major companies. Similar attacks hit British Airways, Ticketmaster and Newegg late last year.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/05/quest-diagnostics-labcorp-amca-data-breach/

Previously: Billing Details for 11.9M Quest Diagnostics Clients Exposed


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 13 2019, @01:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 13 2019, @01:42PM (#855126)

    We recently had this story [soylentnews.org] about the Quest Diagnostics breach.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 13 2019, @01:44PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday June 13 2019, @01:44PM (#855127) Journal

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    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday June 13 2019, @05:50PM (1 child)

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday June 13 2019, @05:50PM (#855217) Journal

      I wish people would stop using the words "stolen" or "loss" to describe these data breaches. Was the data deleted? Or encrypted, for ransom? No? Then it's not lost or stolen, it is only copied. Quite bad enough that a whole lot of privacy was compromised. However, the keepers of all that data still have the data. CAll it what it is: a breach, of privacy.

      I realize there's a long tradition of this misuse of the verb "to steal". Spies "steal" secrets. Artists "steal" each others' ideas. This usage has long been a histrionic way to overemphasize the severity of the supposed transgression.

      As for any security compromises, we understand that large organizations practice bad security. Why was sensitive data not encrypted? And, in many ways worse, why this persistence in treating publicly visible data, such as credit card and Social Security numbers, as if they are big secrets? It's like complaining about packet sniffing because it breaks the supposed security of Telnet, which sends passwords in the clear, when all along we have SSH. 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B DB41 56C5 6356 88C0. Let's not be distracted by all this hyperventilating over the "thieves" who obtained copies of all this data and whom the victims would probably like to see executed by hanging from the neck until dead, when these organizations are too cheap and dimwitted to put a lock on the door, wanting to cry that some rude people let themselves in without even the courtesy of knocking first. They'd rather practice "security by fear". Make the punishment so harsh that no one dares walk through a wide open doorway. Then they don't even have to pay to have a door put in the frame.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:00PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:00PM (#855222)

        exactly. these companies don't want to do their jobs in regards to security then try to make the "thieves" out to be some sort of masterminds. no, you sacks of shit are guilty of gross negligence.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:12PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:12PM (#855231) Journal

    Nothing to worry about folks! Our resident Trump supporters all assure me that hacking is all fake news.