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F500 Pharma & Health Services · Health Care: Pharmacy and Other Services · Data breach

Labcorp

Headline

Labcorp had roughly 10.25 million patients exposed (10,251,784 per HIPAA Journal's settlement coverage) in the same AMCA billing-vendor breach as Quest - two direct competitors, compromised simultaneously, through the…

Labcorp had roughly 10.25 million patients exposed (10,251,784 per HIPAA Journal's settlement coverage) in the same AMCA billing-vendor breach as Quest - two direct competitors, compromised simultaneously, through the same subcontractor neither patient population had ever heard of. Choosing Labcorp over Quest, or vice versa, provided no protection whatsoever. CareCentrix (about 467,600) and BioReference (423,000) were caught in the same incident. The structural lesson recurs across this tracker - see SITA in the Global Airlines tab and MOVEit in Life-Health-Dental - that in concentrated industries the meaningful security boundary is the shared vendor, and consumers cannot see it, evaluate it, or route around it.

  • SeveritySeverity 4 of 5. Labcorp had roughly 10.25 million patients exposed (10,251,784 per HIPAA Journal's settlement coverage) in the same AMCA billing-vendor breach as Quest - two direct competitors, compromised simultaneously, through the…
  • Evidence tierUnassigned
  • Claims confirmed1 of 8 claims confirmed against a primary source
  • Last verified2026-08-04

Primary source. www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/ — Verified - primary source confirmed.

Last verified 96 days agoverified 96 days ago0180 days
Freshness. Last verified 96 days ago (2026-08-04); stale after 180 days.

Terms

Arbitration

Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected for individual patient agreements, separate from this specific AMCA-breach settlement.

Data sharing

SAME AMCA BREACH as Quest Diagnostics (see that row) — exposed personal/financial data of approximately 10.25 MILLION LabCorp patients specifically (10,251,784 per HIPAA Journal; earlier reports cited about 7.7 million). LabCorp reached a SEPARATE $35 MILLION SETTLEMENT (final approval hearing scheduled Aug. 20, 2026; claims deadline Sept. 3, 2026; final-approval outcome not confirmed as of Oct 2026) covering everyone whose data Labcorp transmitted to AMCA during the breach window — offering up to $5,000 for documented out-of-pocket losses from identity theft/fraud, credit monitoring, legal services, and related costs. This settlement resolves only the claims against Labcorp in the shared AMCA litigation; the status of claims against other defendants (including Quest) was not verified as of Oct 2026. Separately, on Sept. 24, 2026 a 44-state attorney-general coalition announced a ~$2.3 million ($2,287,455) settlement with Labcorp over the same AMCA incident.

Data chain: Labcorp, then EHR vendor layer.LabcorpEHR vendor layer
Who holds your data. Data chain: Labcorp, then EHR vendor layer. See cross-cutting finding 16: THE EHR LAYER — THE COMPANY HOLDING YOUR CHART IS ONE YOU NEVER SIGNED WITH.

Fees and billing

The $35M settlement is a direct compensation fund for affected patients — worth flagging the Sept 3, 2026 claims deadline prominently given how recently this settlement reached preliminary approval.

Contacts

Privacy contact. Not recorded.

Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.

Mailing address. Not recorded.

No published channel
Paper trail: none. No published channel.

Evidence

ClaimKindSupportSources
1. Labcorp patients were exposed in the AMCA billing-vendor breach.factsupportednone recorded
2. Roughly 7.7 million Labcorp patients were exposed.factcontradicted1 (0 confirmed)
3. Quest was compromised in the same AMCA breach.factunsupportednone recorded
4. Labcorp and Quest are direct competitors.factunknownnone recorded
5. Neither patient population had heard of the subcontractor; choosing one lab over the other gave no protection.characterizationn/anone recorded
6. CareCentrix (500,000 people) was caught in the same incident.factunsupported1 (0 confirmed)
7. BioReference (423,000 people) was caught in the same incident.factunsupported1 (1 confirmed)
8. In concentrated industries the meaningful security boundary is the shared vendor.characterizationn/anone recorded

1 of 8 claims have a confirmed source of their own.

Sources

SourceClaimTierStatusQuote
reporting · 2026-06-12
www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/
Claim 2Unassignedcorrected“10,251,784 Labcorp patients”
Quote basis: not recorded.
reporting · 2019-08-28
www.hipaajournal.com/amca-data-breach-total-nears-25m-as-wisconsin-diagnostic-laboratories-confirms-115k-record-breach/
Claim 6Unassignedcorrected“Estimated records exposed "500,000"; confirmed victim count (OCR) "467,621"”
Quote basis: not recorded.
reporting · 2019-08-28
www.hipaajournal.com/amca-data-breach-total-nears-25m-as-wisconsin-diagnostic-laboratories-confirms-115k-record-breach/
Claim 7Unassignedconfirmed“Estimated records exposed "422,600"”
Quote basis: not recorded.

Source vault

Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched

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Privacy policy
labcorp.com/legal/privacy-policy
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Terms of service
labcorp.com/hipaa-privacy-notice
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Website
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Primary source
https://www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/
Verification: Verified - primary source confirmed
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Enforcement

No enforcement actions are linked to this row.

State statute

No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.