Jefferson County Health Department (Missouri) ransomware data breach (2022)
Add to my breach check115,940 people
What leaked7
Hard to replace
- Driver's licence number
- Home or delivery address
- Other profile data
Permanent
- Health information
- Social Security number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Health informationdiagnoses, lab results, medications and other treatment information
- Other profile dataclaims and financial information
To-dos6 · about 1 h 30 min in all
- Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionStops: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PINStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
- Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsLimits harm from: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Check your credit reports every week, freeHelps you notice: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Turn on instant transaction alertsHelps you notice: bank account fraud
- Freeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
What happened next7 events
Remedy: 1 event
Back to latest- Settlement claims, opt-outs and objections open until November 16, 2026; fairness hearing on December 10, 2026Until November 16, 2026
- Company
- Jefferson County Health Department · Missouri
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 115,940 people · the health department's report to HHS
Sources
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights regulator (opens in a new tab)checked November 3, 2026
- Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri court (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026
- Settlement agreement in J.D. et al. v. Jefferson County Health Center court (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026