Faxing error leads to healthcare data breach, lawsuit

Quest Diagnostics faces a class-action lawsuit following a fax-related healthcare data breach, according to a recent press release. Several hundreds of health files were allegedly sent to a New York-based marketing firm rather than to Quest for approximately one year. This mistake was due to human error in which individuals from several providers incorrectly input Quest's fax number, thus inadvertently sending the medical files to the marketing firm APS Marketing Group. This healthcare data breach came to light when a representative from APS Marketing Group, Gabby Klotzman, reported it to the I-Team at NBC News.