Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is involved in the Ascension Health Data Breach Investigation, regarding a breach that impacted 5,599,699 individuals and their personal information.
On May 8, 2024, Ascension Health (“Ascension”) detected unauthorized activity on its technology systems. Ascension subsequently conducted an investigation, which uncovered that a cybercriminal had stolen files containing the personally identifiable information of Ascension patients and employees between May 7, 2024, and May 8, 2024. Specifically, the compromised information includes the following sensitive data:
- full names
- dates of birth
- Social Security numbers
- physical addresses
- medical record numbers
- dates of service
- types of lab tests
- procedure codes
- credit card information
- bank account numbers
- Medicaid/Medicare IDs
- policy numbers
- insurance claims
- tax identification numbers
- driver’s license numbers
- passport numbers
Ascension Health Data Breach
Ascension recently sent notice of the data breach to impacted parties. All of the information stolen is likely valuable and dangerous to affected victims. As is likely to be the case with the Ascension Health data breach, in previous cyberattacks, victims of data theft have noticed identity theft attempts ranging from fraudulent charges on bank accounts or credit cards, to unauthorized credit card applications, to medical services or government services ordered in their name, to their information being posted on the dark web, to a massive uptick in the number of spam text messages, calls and emails received.
Are you a current or former patient or employee of Ascension Health concerned that you might be affected by this data breach?
If you have concerns that you have been affected by this data breach, and/or have experienced suspicious activity since May 7, 2024, we would like to hear from you. Please complete the contact form on this page, send us an email at [email protected], or give us a call at (202) 470-3520.
The lawyers at Migliaccio & Rathod LLP have years of experience in class action litigation against large corporations, including in cases involving data breaches such as this. More information about our current cases and investigations is available on our blog.