AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

bd_33d4a39961d31709 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 29, 2021

Filed

Nov 22, 2021

To disclose

24 days

Affected

12state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED →92 incidents on file

Quest Diagnostics notified the NH AG of an inadvertent email disclosure on Oct 29, 2021, affecting 12 NH residents. Employee sent spreadsheet with PII (names, SSNs, employee IDs) to internal lists. Quest recalled email, contained issue, and offered 12 months of Experian identity monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 24 days

Oct 29, 2021

Begins

Oct 29, 2021

Discovered

Nov 22, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1bb2823f1487fb2c2021-11-16 · +6dCandidate
California State AGbd_40b55f7149cee7eb2021-11-16 · +6dVerified
Maine State AGbd_64f81844de618f512021-11-16 · +6dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_b8c2d7cdf7dbdae82021-11-16 · +6dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_fb33ff71753f90952021-11-16 · +6dVerified

Name: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED
norm: quest diagnostics

Name: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED
norm: quest diagnostics
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 29, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 29, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 16, 2021
Affected individuals: 12state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Promptly took steps to recall the email
Notified the IT team
Immediately took steps to contain the issue, administratively removing the email and spreadsheet from recipients’ email systems and computers
Took steps to track and confirm permanent deletion of any emails that may have been forwarded by recipients
Began notifying individuals whose personal information was included on the spreadsheet
Offering a complimentary 12-month subscription to Experian’s identity monitoring services
Changes made: Offering a complimentary 12-month subscription to Experian’s identity monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 days(24 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGNov 16 · first

California State AGNov 16 · first

Maine State AGNov 16 · first

Indiana State AGNov 16 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 16 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 16 (MT), last Nov 22 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/quest-diagnostics-20211122.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 22, 2021
Raw hash: c0c61ee4b1ee6236495382e58de600276fcaec7adaef140471797354cefc552c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityQUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Victim entityQUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

Incidentdiscovered Oct 29, 2021

Stated responsePromptly took steps to recall the email

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov