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The American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing collections firm, recently notified medical testing giants LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics of a significant data breach. This breach exposed the personal, financial, and medical data of some 7.7 million LabCorp patients and almost 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients.
The breaches appear to have been first identified by Gemini Advisory (GA), a fraud intelligence and solutions firm. Approximately 200,000 patients’ payment cards had been found by GA for sale on a well-known dark web market, and GA linked the cards to AMCA. GA reported their findings to law enforcement, who then contacted AMCA.
Financial identity theft and medical identity theft could both be a cause of the breach. Consumers who think they may be victims can start taking steps to minimize their risk. Resources for financial and medical identity theft and additional information regarding data breach can be found at www.idtheftcenter.org.