Your Medical Files May Have Just Been Breached

This week Quest Diagnostics revealed that around 11.9 million patients had their data stolen. Following this news, LabCorp also said it was affected.

LabCorp announced that it has been affected by the same third-party data breach that affected Quest Diagnostics. The medical giant said 7.7 million patients had their personal and financial data stolen by hackers, which hit the payment pages of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA).

American Medical Collection Agency is a third-party vendor that processes payments for LabCorp and other companies.

AMCA spokesperson Jennifer Kain said in a statement, supplied through crisis communications firm Brunswick Group, that it was “investigating” the breach. She remarked, “Upon receiving information from a security compliance firm that works with credit card companies of a possible security compromise, we conducted an internal review, and then took down our web payments page.”

The company also said it informed law enforcement of the breach.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, LabCorp revealed that the stolen data includes a patient’s name, date of birth, address, phone number, date of service, provider, and balance information.

“AMCA’s affected system also included credit card or bank account information that was provided by the consumer to AMCA,” read the filing.

Quest Diagnostics revealed the data breach in its own filing on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Disclaimer: We have no position in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (NYSE: LH) nor Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE: DGX) and have not been compensated for this article.