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Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital data breach

USUnited States

Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital (United States) notified the California Attorney General of a data breach on 20 August 2026. The breach began on 2 December 2025, 261 days before it was reported.

One of 12 organisations whose data was taken through Aesto. The Aesto breach →

Status
Confirmed breach
People affected
Not reported yet
Reported
20 August 2026
Breach began
2 December 2025
Found to notice
86 days (found 26 May 2026, by the company’s letter)
Time to tell
261 days (the median in California’s notices over the last year: 154 days)

What was exposed

The register’s list does not say what was exposed; the notice it links to (under Sources) usually does.

How it happened

How
Hacking On or about December 18, 2025, Aesto experienced a network security incident that impacted a limited portion of Aesto's Amazon Web Services infrastructure source
Through
Aesto, LLC Aesto, LLC ("Aesto") provides healthcare data migration and archiving services for healthcare providers and writes with important information regarding a recent data security incident at Aesto source · 12 organisations hit through Aesto →

What the letter says

Found
on May 26, 2026, Aesto confirmed that between on or about December 2, 2025, and December 18, 2025, a limited amount of your protected health information pertaining to your care, which was stored on Aesto's network, may have been accessed and/or acquired by an unauthorized actor
Began
between on or about December 2, 2025, and December 18, 2025, a limited amount of your protected health information pertaining to your care, which was stored on Aesto's network, may have been accessed and/or acquired by an unauthorized actor
Exposed
The information potentially impacted includes your full name, as well as your <<Data elements>>
At
Aesto, LLC ("Aesto") provides healthcare data migration and archiving services for healthcare providers and writes with important information regarding a recent data security incident at Aesto
Offered
out of an abundance of caution, to help protect your identity, it is offering a complimentary <<12/24>> month membership of Epiq Privacy Solutions Plus

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Read the letter (PDF), as filed with the California Attorney General.

Sources

Official notices are read by code from the regulator’s own register. More notices to California. · Corrections and changes

If Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital had your data

  1. Look for Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
  2. The register’s list does not say what was exposed; the notice it links to (under Sources) usually does. If Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital has a password of yours, change it now to be safe.
  3. Expect scams that use your details: calls, texts or emails pretending to be Northern Inyo Healthcare District d/b/a Northern Inyo Hospital, 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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