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A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing “enormous expenses” from notifying affected consumers and the loss of its four largest customers. Continue reading Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy
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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Millions of people might have had their financial and medical information stolen. Quest Diagnostics contracted its billing collections to a vendor who further subcontracted the work to AMCA, which allowed its systems to be hacked.
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Medical data and financial information of nearly 12 million people may have been compromised in a data breach at a billing firm that works with Quest Diagnostics, the laboratory company said in a regulatory document. The exposed information included credit card numbers and bank account details, Quest said Monday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The New Jersey-based corporation is one of the giants in the medical testing industry, with more than $7.5 billion in revenue in 2018. Quest said the American Medical Collection Agency notified it on May 14 about a security incident. AMCA discovered that an outsider infiltrated its web payment system and accessed data belonging to other companies, including Quest Diagnostics. Quest had outsourced its billing work to Optum360, a health care revenue-cycle manager, which contracted AMCA. AMCA describes itself as a provider of “professional debt collection services are providers that specialize in collecting delinquent accounts,” according to […]
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