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AMCA parent company files for bankruptcy amid data breach fallout

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The debt collection agency responsible for a data breach that compromised information on at least 20 million people has declared bankruptcy. U.S.-based Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau Inc., which collects medical bills under the name American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), filed for bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of New York. The filing comes after the company learned of a data breach lasting from August 1, 2018 to March 30 affecting information on millions of patients at testing firms Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp. AMCA’s four largest clients soon ceased operations with the company. Affected companies included Quest, with information about some 11.9 million people involved, LabCorp with 7.7 million, Carecentrix with 500,000 patients hit, and Bio Reference Labs with 423,000 patients. Numerous class-action lawsuits also have been filed, with plaintiffs alleging an unreasonable breach notification delay, a lack of reasonable data security and possible violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability […]

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U. of Washington Medicine learned it exposed info on 974k people after a patient found their data on Google

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Medical data about nearly 1 million patients of the University of Washington Medicine was exposed online for at least three weeks in December, the school said in a statement this week. Data about approximately 974,000 individuals was included, the school announced Wednesday. UW Medicine is sending letters to the affected patients and has notified the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A misconfigured database made visible patient names, medical record numbers, with whom the school shared patients’ medical information, and a description of what was shared, such as office vs. lab visits or patient demographic information. In some cases, exposed files included the name or a lab test that was performed, though not the result, or the name of a research study including the name of a health condition. The information in question became accessible on Dec. 4, 2018 “due to an internal […]

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