Breach at American Medical Collection Agency has affected nearly 12 million patients. Breach exposed financial data, Social Security numbers and certain medical information. Breach appears to be the biggest health data breach to be revealed so far in 2019 so far. Security experts say the incident offers early lessons about third-party vendors in the healthcare sector. It’s important to be careful when an organization elects to use a third party to perform security checks on its systems, experts say. The company says it will work with Optum360 “to ensure that Quest patients are appropriately notified””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/quest-diagnostics-data-on-12-million-patients-exposed-a-12560