Migliaccio and Rathod Investigates the First Choice Dental Data Breach
2024年7月19日 - 4:30AM
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Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is involved in the First Choice
Dental data breach investigation, for a data breach
affecting 228,287 individuals and their personal
information.
On October 22, 2023, First Choice Dental (“FCD”) discovered that
it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack, whereby a
cybercriminal had accessed FCD’s network, encrypted files related
to its patients, and left a ransom note therein. FCD subsequently
conducted an investigation, where it learned the hacker had
accessed its patients’ personally identifiable information between
October 22, 2023 and October 23, 2023. The compromised information
may include full names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers,
passport numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account
information, and health information. The FCD data breach is
significant and may result in serious harm to the affected
individuals.
First Choice Dental recently began informing individuals
of these breaches through a mailed notice letter. Although FCD’s
notification letter redacts the specific information leaked, it is
likely the compromised data includes full names, Social Security
numbers, driver’s license numbers, and government ID numbers.
All of the information stolen is likely valuable and dangerous
to affected victims. 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.
Have you received a data breach letter, email, or other
notice from First Choice Dental?
If you received such a notice, we would like to hear from you.
Please fill out our contact form on this page, send us an email at
info@classlawdc.com, 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.
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