Healthcare Hack Impacts 20M Peoples Data

Recent healthcare data hacks have impacted almost 20 million people  and some members of Congress are demanding answers.New York-based American Medical Collection Agency has been named as the victim in a large healthcare data breach, with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) revealing that 7.7 million patients’ accounts at AMCA were stored in the affected computer system. In addition, Quest Diagnostics Inc. said that 11.9 million people were exposed in the AMCA breach.The exposed data includes names, dates of birth, addresses, financial and other personal information. While LabCorp didn’t provide AMCA with any ordered test, diagnostic information or test results, Quest admitted that the hack may have included unspecified medical information, but not test results.