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Perry Johnson & Associates medical transcription data breach (2023)

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about 13.3 million people

What leaked6

Hard to replace

  • Home or delivery address
  • Other profile data

Permanent

  • Health information
  • Social Security number
  • Date of birth
  • Full name
  • Health informationdiagnoses, laboratory and diagnostic test results and medication names from medical transcription files
  • Home or delivery addresshome address
  • Other profile datahospital account numbers and insurance information

To-dos5 · about 1 h 30 min in all

  1. Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionabout 30 minfreeStops: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  2. Get an IRS Identity Protection PINabout 20 minStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
  3. Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsabout 10 minfreeLimits harm from: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  4. Check your credit reports every week, freeabout 20 minfreeHelps you notice: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  5. Freeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileabout 10 minfreeLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
Company
Perry Johnson & Associates
When it happened
Notice
Leak confirmed
Affected
about 13.3 million people · New York attorney general; about 4.2 million in New York

Outcome

On November 6, 2026 the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Michigan and New Jersey settled with the Perry Johnson companies: at least $300,000 in penalties, $9.7 million more if they break the terms, and required security measures such as multi-factor authentication and encryption.

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