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Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients' personal and health data was compromised during breach
TechCrunch • • business
Key Points:
- Quest Diagnostics confirmed a cyberattack targeting its Quanum lab testing system, which handles patient test requests and billing, resulting in unauthorized access to certain patient records.
- The company notified law enforcement and is investigating the breach, but has not disclosed the number of affected patients or healthcare customers, nor the specific data compromised.
- Quanum is widely used by about half a million clinicians across North America, potentially exposing a large volume of sensitive health and billing information.
- This incident follows a series of significant healthcare sector cyberattacks in 2023, highlighting the increasing targeting of health tech companies by financially motivated cybercriminals.
- Quest previously experienced a major breach in 2019 involving 11.9 million patient records, marking this as the company’s second known large-scale data breach in a decade.
