Quest Diagnostics hacked: patient data of half of US hospitals exposed, darkly framed as an open health dataset
granawkins · x · 2026-10-23
- Quest Diagnostics has been hacked, exposing patient data. The lab serves roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians; an investigation is ongoing.
- One commenter darkly noted it may now be the largest public dataset of human health records, "exciting for training open source AI models"—highlighting the ethical tension around breached medical data.
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