AMCA, a medical billing collections agency that was hacked last year in an incident believed to impact millions of medical patients is now seeking a federal bankruptcy court’s protection from its own creditors. “Because the [AMCA] was unable to determine a particular subset of persons or data files that had been hacked, the Debtor [AMCA] had no choice but to work under the assumption that all of the information within its servers were compromised,” wrote Fuchs, who loaned AMCA $2.5 million of his own money to complete the process.
The company was also forced to lay off nearly 90 employees this year, he added. In his declaration, Fuchs requested the court’s permission to continue compensating the 25 who are left.
CEO Fuchs said the company, which he founded in 1977, originally had its own IBM mainframe that served AMCA’s purposes “well for many years.” But changes in technology (most notably, the shift to cloud computing) made it clear, he said, that continued reliance on the office system “would not be tenable in the long term.”
AMCA estimates its current liabilities at somewhere between $1-10 million. The company, along with Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, are currently the subjects of investigations and lawsuits linked to the breach in multiple states, including New York, California, and New Jersey.
