Industry News: Cyber

Know Your Breach: Quest Diagnostics / LabCorp

Written by Cybersecurity | Jun 7, 2019 2:41:07 PM

The target: Quest Diagnostics, the largest blood testing provider in the US, and LabCorp, a leading health care diagnostics company.

The take: Almost 20 million patient records, including names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, dates of service, providers, and balance information, including 200,000 credit card or bank account details.

The attack vector: American Medical Collection Agency, a third-party collections firm, reported that their web billing site had been breached as of Aug 1, 2018 through March 30, 2019, resulting in the theft of information held on behalf the entities for whom they provided collection services.

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