Nearly 12 Million Quest Diagnostics Patients Affected by Breach

Exploit: Unauthorized network access
Quest Diagnostics: Clinical laboratory company with operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Brazil.
 

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Risk to Small Business: 1.556 = Severe: A collection firm partnering with Quest Diagnostics encountered a data breach that directly impacted nearly 12 million of the lab’s patients. In response, Quest is partnering with a third-party cybersecurity organization to ensure proper breach notification standards are followed. Even though the event precipitated at a separate organization, Quest Diagnostics will bear the financial and reputational burden of a data breach that has compromised the most sensitive information in people’s lives: the type that is related to their health.
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Individual Risk: 2.286 = Severe: The scope of this incident is astounding, and it includes patient information, financial data, social security numbers, along with other medical data. While test results were not included in the breach, this extensive trove of valuable information can quickly make its way to the Dark Web, and those impacted by the breach should attain the services necessary to know what happens to their information after it’s compromised.

Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Caring for customers in the wake of a data breach should be any company’s top priority. Although Quest Diagnostics is working diligently to notify those impacted by the breach, much more is required to adequately make reparations. Since sensitive personal information has a significant market on the Dark Web, providing services to help customers understand what happens to their data is an excellent place to start.

Risk Levels:

1 - 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 - 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 - 3 = Moderate Risk

*The risk score is calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.


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