Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. says a hack of an internet application on its network has exposed the personal health information of about 34,000 people.
The Madison, New Jersey-based company says “an unauthorized third party” on Nov. 26 gained access to customer information including names, dates of birth, lab results and in some instances, telephone numbers. The stolen data did not include Social Security numbers, credit card accounts, insurance details or any other financial information.
Quest said Monday it is working with a cybersecurity firm and law enforcement to investigate the breach, while taking steps to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
The company said it has notified affected clients by mail and has set up a dedicated number to field questions regarding the breach at (888) 320-9970.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
I am a client of Quest Diagnostics, and do not want any of my Information to go Public. I hope that any or all persons involved are carefully interrogated to identify the underlying motive for these hacks, and especially identify those who paid for the hack job that they be punished.
Let us not be PC, but tell the truth. The biggest problem in the world is that we are too many. People talk about the shortage of energy, but not that the ground will be depleted of every mineral from copper to iodine. The other problem is the greed of people, which has become a culture ,wanting more and more. How about the technological revolution? Scientists and engineers develop newer and newer ideas and items, manufacturers make goods which do not last and yesterday’s rubbish is used as landfill. The soil is overused and all nutrients disappearing. People eat and eat unhealthy food, including poisoned meat by antibiotics. They become fat and sick. Added to it is the GMO revolution. All this gives a chance to companies like Monsanto to make a pile of money. The pharmaceutical and medical mafia use all the wrong treatments as they cannot see beyond radiation and chemotherapy for cancer, once the body is cut into pieces. The FDA and AMA and their crooked political partners make sure that they all make money. Crooked scientists create sicknesses like ebola, HIV, cancer and others, . 100 years ago in European villages cancer was almost unknown, today every third person dies from it. Unless he succombes by sitting in front of a box and getting less and less fit.Yet there are ways to limit it and cures to overcome it. Politiciens create wars from Vietnam to Iraq. Chemical companies like Monsanto and others poison the air and crops and people with chemicals. Oil companies add to it. Everything becomes automated and robotised which sends simple people to the food-stamps camp, poverty and many to crime, the only skill they acquire. Governments, or rather goon-onements run by criminals who want to impose more and control on the population, who are becoming easily controllable with fluoride ingestion, reliance on medications. Then the implanting of electronics is coming, for total control on their thoughts and feelings. Millions are sent to their early deaths by compulsory vaccinations . But is this all a great plan to reduce the population, to make them into modern slaves? World trade is rubbish as every country should be largely self sufficient. Uncontrolled immigration is the brain ????? child of crooked politiciens, who destroy national pride. We have to love and care for our fellow beings, but people are not different from animals (which we also destroy) Living creatures coexist easier with others who behave, think, feel,the same way believe in the same things, have the same traditions, react the same way. Europe has slowly developed a certain philosophy in life and put their countries more or less together. When huge number of refugees of completely different background appear in huge numbers and expect everything without working for it, they are not poor refugees, but occupying criminals. It took Europe a 1000 years to develop into a reasonably civilised society and now idiotic politicians destroy it all. Millions of Europeans perished during those years. Why should not other nations go through the same trials and try to create their own countries . If one builds one’s own little house, one appreciates it more than someone who is given a fancy abode, without working for it. Such people think that it is their divine right. Let people wake up, become practical and fight for their rights and existence. .