Quest Diagnostic Agrees to $195,000 EHR Data Breach Settlement

    On February 25, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey approved a settlement in the matter of Morrow v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., in which Quest Diagnostic agreed to pay $195,000 to patients affected by a 2016 data breach.

    In November 2016, a third party breached the healthcare company’s MyQuest by Care360® web application and gained access to the electronic health records (EHR) of approximately 34,000 patients.

    Read more at Becker’s Health IT

    Need a Data Privacy, Protection, and Security expert?

    If you are in need of an expert with experience in data privacy and data security disputes, we invite you to consider DisputeSoft.