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.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/ — Verified - primary source confirmed.
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.
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.
Evidence
| Claim | Kind | Support | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Labcorp patients were exposed in the AMCA billing-vendor breach. | fact | supported | none recorded |
| 2. Roughly 7.7 million Labcorp patients were exposed. | fact | contradicted | 1 (0 confirmed) |
| 3. Quest was compromised in the same AMCA breach. | fact | unsupported | none recorded |
| 4. Labcorp and Quest are direct competitors. | fact | unknown | none recorded |
| 5. Neither patient population had heard of the subcontractor; choosing one lab over the other gave no protection. | characterization | n/a | none recorded |
| 6. CareCentrix (500,000 people) was caught in the same incident. | fact | unsupported | 1 (0 confirmed) |
| 7. BioReference (423,000 people) was caught in the same incident. | fact | unsupported | 1 (1 confirmed) |
| 8. In concentrated industries the meaningful security boundary is the shared vendor. | characterization | n/a | none recorded |
1 of 8 claims have a confirmed source of their own.
Sources
| Source | Claim | Tier | Status | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reporting · 2026-06-12 www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/ | Claim 2 | Unassigned | corrected | “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 6 | Unassigned | corrected | “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 7 | Unassigned | confirmed | “Estimated records exposed "422,600"” Quote basis: not recorded. |
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy labcorp.com/legal/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service labcorp.com/hipaa-privacy-notice | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source https://www.hipaajournal.com/labcorp-amca-data-breach-settlement/ Verification: Verified - primary source confirmed | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.