Rite Aid data breach overview:ย
- Who: Rite Aid confirmed a cyberattack last month led to a data breach.ย
- Why: The drugstore chain attributed the data breach to an external system breach and said the incident affected 2.2 million of its customers.ย
- Where: The data breach affected certain Rite Aid customers nationwide.ย
Rite Aid confirmed this week that a cyberattack against the drugstore chain last month caused a data breach that it says affected 2.2 million of its customers.ย
The number of affected customers is lower than the 45 million initially given by the ransomware group claiming to be behind the cyberattack, reports PCMag.ย
Rite Aid, in a notice filed with Maineโs attorney general, said the data breach occurred June 6 was discovered June 20 and was the result of an external system breach.ย
โOn June 6, 2024, an unknown third party impersonated a company employee to compromise their business credentials and gain access to certain business systems,โ the company said, in a sample letter sent to affected customers.ย
Information compromised in the data breach included purchaser names, addresses, birthdates and driverโs license numbers or other forms of identification presented at the time of a purchase between June 6, 2017 and July 30, 2018, according to the letter.ย
Rite Aid confirms no financial information exposed in data breach
Rite Aid confirmed no financial information, patient information or Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach and said it is implementing โadditional security measuresโ to try and prevent future incidents.ย
โWe take our obligation to safeguard personal information very seriously and are alerting you about this issue in case you would like to take any additional steps to help protect yourself,โ the company said.ย
Rite Aid customers affected by the data breach have been offered 12 months of complimentary identity theft protection and credit monitoring services through Kroll.ย
The ransomware gang behind the cyber attack demanded Rite Aid make a ransom payment to keep the exposed data secret, however the group claims negotiations have been cut off, reports PCMag.ย
Rite Aid reportedly has not commented on whether it would be making a ransom payment. The company previously disclosed last July that it suffered a separate data breach that it said may have compromised the personal information of its customers.ย
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My driver information is being used I have received 2 calls from companies asking if I have any other id besides the l licence because the license is showing up in there. System is saying that license information is fraudulent. I have contacted the registry of motor vehicles and I had to bring my license in to them and they checked it out and they said to be on the safe side they would issue me a different license with a different license number for safety but I shouldnโt have to go through this which is nothing but a inconvenience
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medication and patron of product . My information is in their data base
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Got my notice July 26, 2024
United States