A backend healthcare system containing the medical and financial information of 11.9 million people has been breached, Quest Diagnostics Inc. disclosed today.
The company, a major blood testing lab with 45,000 employees worldwide, detailed the incident in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The breach took place at a New York-based collection firm called American Medical Collection Agency that has been providing billing services for Quest. For an eight-month period between last August and this March, an “unauthorized user” had access to a system the firm used to store patient information.
The compromised information contained numerous sensitive records. According to Quest’s disclosure, the repository included Social Security numbers, financial data such as bank account details and certain unspecified medical information.
The company said that there weren’t any lab results among the records. That’s good news for Quest patients, but the hack still amounts to a major breach of privacy. The filing doesn’t specify if Article source: https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/03/data-breach-exposed-11-9m-quest-diagnostics-patients-medical-financial-data/
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