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7.7 Million LabCorp Patients Added to AMCA Breach Tally

June 5, 2019 Mayuri Kumar

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How big will the American Medical Collection Agency data breach get?

A second major lab testing firm, LabCorp, has revealed that it, too, is a victim of the "unauthorized access" incident at AMCA, with 7.7 million patients that the lab test firm serves potentially having their data - including, for some, credit card information - exposed.

The news comes after Quest Diagnostics reported on Monday that nearly 12 million of the patients it serves were affected by the breach.

"We are in the early days of learning the full size and scope of this cybersecurity incident," says privacy attorney David Holtzman of security consultancy CynergisTek.

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