Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers

Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug store chain, said that more than 2.2 million of its customers have been swept into a data breach that stole personal information, including driver’s license numbers, addresses, and dates of birth.

The company said in mandatory filings with the attorneys general of states including Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Oregon that the stolen data was associated with purchases or attempted purchases of retail products made between June 6, 2017, and July 30, 2018. The data provided included the purchaser’s name, address, date of birth, and driver’s license number or other form of government-issued ID. No Social Security numbers, financial information, or patient information were included.

“On June 6, 2024, an unknown third party impersonated a company employee to compromise their business credentials and gain access to certain business systems,” the filing stated. “We detected the incident within 12 hours and immediately launched an internal investigation to terminate the unauthorized access, remediate affected systems and ascertain if any customer data was impacted.”

RansomHub, the name of a relatively new ransomware group, has taken credit for the attack, which it said yielded more than 10GB of customer data. RansomHub emerged earlier this year as a rebranded version of a group known as Knight. According to security firm Check Point, RansomHub became the most prevalent ransomware group following an international operation by law enforcement in May that took down much of the infrastructure used by rival ransomware group Lockbit.