Planned Parenthood Lab Provider Discloses Breach

A lab company providing services to some Planned Parenthood centers disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.6 million people.

Laboratory Services Cooperative, a Seattle, WA-based provider of lab testing services to Planned Parenthood centers, has started notifying approximately 1.6 million people that some of their personal and health information has been exposed or stolen in a recent hacking incident. 

As reported in the HIPPA Journal, the data compromised in the breach may include:

• Medical/clinical information such as date(s) of service, diagnoses, treatment information, medical record numbers, lab test results, patient/accession numbers, provider names, treatment locations, and other care-related information.
• Health insurance information such as plan names, plan types, insurance companies, and member/group ID numbers.
• Billing, claims, and payment data such as claim numbers, billing details, bank account details, billing codes, payment card details, balance details, and other banking and financial information.
• Additional identifiers such as Social Security Numbers, driver’s license/state ID numbers, passport numbers, dates of birth, demographic data, student ID numbers, and other government identifiers.
• For employees, the impacted information may also have included information related to their dependents and beneficiaries.

If you are concerned that your personal information was compromised, call Emery | Reddy today.