Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is involved in the Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union (“ALEC”) data breach investigation that affected approximately 36,044 individuals and their personal information.
On September 23, 2024, Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union discovered suspicious activity on its network and launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the breach. The investigation determined that an unauthorized third party accessed the email account on August 2, 2024, and may have acquired certain information contained in the account. Affected consumers were not notified of the Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union data breach until October 18, 2024. Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union discovered that hackers were able to compromise a significant amount of personal information. The compromised information includes a variety of highly sensitive details including:
- Name,
- Social Security number
The Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union Data Breach Investigation
Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union informed the Maine State Attorney General’s office of the breach, where a copy of the consumer notification letter can be found. All of the information stolen is likely valuable and dangerous to affected victims. As is likely to be the case with the Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union data breach, in previous data breaches, 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 an Abbott Laboratories Employees Credit Union customer concerned that you might be affected by this breach?
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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.