LabCorp discloses data breach affecting 7.7 million customers

LabCorp, a medical testing company based in Burlington, North Carolina, said 7.7 million customers had their personal and financial data exposed through a breach at a third-party billing collections company.

The news came just days after the same contractor, American Medical Collection Agency, notified Quest Diagnostics about the full scope of a breach affecting 11.9 million of its patients. That breach allowed an "unauthorized user" to gain access to financial data, Social Security numbers and medical data, but not lab results.

"AMCA has indicated that it is continuing to investigate this incident and has taken steps to increase the security of its systems, processes, and data," LabCorp said in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "LabCorp takes data security very seriously, including the security of data handled by vendors."

AMCA, which works primarily with health care companies, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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(Winston-Salem Journal)