Posted on 06/14/2024 7:05:53 AM PDT by LouAvul
It's a form letter from Cencora and its Lash Group partner, with pharma companies. They say they had a data breach 2/21/24 and patient's data may have been leaked.
They're letting clients know "what information was potentially involved.." The "potential" information was Bob's (not the real name; it's a relative of mine) first name, last name, address, date of birth, health diagnosis, and or prescriptions.
Page two says their solution is to provide two years Experian services (which includes notifications of activity, etc). Then they go into a lengthy description of Experian and how they can help.
It sounds like a scheme to promote premium services for a credit reporting company but, I don't know.
I trust FR and just wanted to see if you've gotten such an offer. Thank you.
And we'd believe anything from Google, because???
No, Cencora was legitimately breached. They’re one of the largest pharma companies in the country. This is standard for their SEC 8-K filing.
The idea was simple - if you had the victim’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number (all of which might be obtained from a previous incident), you could go to one of the websites offering free credit reports, and submit the data to request one. At that point, the website would redirect you to the Experian website where you’d be required to submit more personally identifiable information, such as questions about previous addresses of living and such.If a thief already had an individual's personal data why would they want to hack Experian to obtain a credit report? To see if they hadn't been caught yet? To validate the data you are about to sell or purchase on the dark web? I don't know about that.
I have gotten that sort of letter several times, in connection with several “data breaches”.
I always just ignore them.
Agreed. There are a very few select people on here that I trust, and even they don’t know it.
Thank you.
I got a data breach letter from AT&T too. I closed my account with them 8 years ago. Why are they hanging on to my data for so long? So it can get stolen? Wasn’t Experian hacked a few years ago too?
We got that letter. Just ignored it.
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