Data Breach at Planned Parenthood Lab Partner Exposes Info of 1.6M

Data breach at Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) exposed the sensitive health and personal information of 1.6 million individuals linked to select Planned Parenthood centers. Learn if you’re affected and what data was compromised.

A US-based lab testing services provider, Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC), has confirmed that hackers broke into their computer systems in October 2024 and got the personal information of about 1.6 million people.

For your information, LSC is a non-profit group in Seattle, Washington. It started working with different Planned Parenthood centres at different times, some only in the last few years. It currently provides lab testing for centres run by Planned Parenthood in around 31 US states.

The company, reportedly, noticed unusual activity on October 27, 2024, and collaborated with third-party forensics specialists for investigation. It was identified that an unauthorized third party gained access to and removed certain files from its network.

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