Security News > 2019 > June > Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Quest Diagnostics, a US-based company that offers medical testing services, has announced that a third-party billing collections company they use has been hit by a data breach, affecting 11.9 million of Quest’s customers. The potentially compromised information includes the patients’ personal information (including Social Security number), financial and medical information, but not laboratory test results. What happened? “American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a billing collections service provider, has informed Quest Diagnostics that an unauthorized user … More → The post Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach appeared first on Help Net Security.
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