The Estee Lauder Companies (NY, United States) notified the Vermont Attorney General, the Texas Attorney General, the Indiana Attorney General, the California Attorney General and the Washington Attorney General of a data breach on 10 July 2026. It affected 31,859 people. Exposed: Social Security numbers, Government ID numbers, Health and medical information, Financial account and card details, Dates of birth and Names and more.
150,535 Washington residents (one state’s count; the total can be higher)
Reported
31 August 2023
What was exposed
The register’s list does not say what was exposed; the notice it links to (under Sources) usually does.
Before the notice: the ransomware gang ALPHV (BlackCat) named The Estee Lauder Companies on its leak site on 26 July 2023, 36 days before this was reported. Matched by the organisation’s name: the notice itself does not say who the attacker was.
Look for The Estee Lauder Companies’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
Call your bank on the number printed on your card (never one from a message), check recent payments and ask for a new card.
An ID number cannot be changed, so lock it: a credit freeze or fraud alert in the US, a credit warning (kreditadvarsel) on borger.dk in Denmark, Cifas protective registration in the UK.
Check your health insurer’s statements for treatment you never had.
Expect scams that use your details: calls, texts or emails pretending to be The Estee Lauder Companies, your bank or the police. Never give codes or passwords, never approve a sign-in you did not start, never move money.
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