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19 Million Patient Records Stolen from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp

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

MrPlow writes:

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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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• Vote for Warren Vote for Warren (Score: 3, Interesting) by Coward, Anonymous on Thursday June 13 2019, @02:33PM (1 child)

  by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Thursday June 13 2019, @02:33PM (#855149) Journal

  Of all the presidential candidates, Warren has been most consistent about holding corporate feet to the fire. She recently proposed a bill [theverge.com] that would hold executives responsible for data breaches.

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• Re:Vote for Warren (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:40PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday June 13 2019, @06:40PM (#855243) Journal

  How dare you support policies that might help solve these problems. Such trolling!

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