Confirmed breach

WEL Companies data breach

USUnited States · WI · WEL Companies, Inc.

WEL Companies (WI, United States) notified the Oregon Department of Justice, the Texas Attorney General, the California Attorney General and the Washington Attorney General of a data breach on 19 November 2025. It told the states about 122,960 Oregon residents; the total can be higher. Exposed: Social Security numbers, Driver’s license numbers, Government ID numbers and Health and medical information. The breach began on 30 January 2025, 293 days before it was reported.

Status: Confirmed breach
People affected: 122,960 Oregon residents (one state’s count; the total can be higher)
Reported: 19 November 2025
Across the state notices: at least 137,095 people (Oregon, Texas and Washington: each state counts only its own residents)
Breach began: 30 January 2025
Time to tell: 293 days (the median in California’s notices over the last year: 154 days)

What was exposed

Social Security numbers
Driver’s license numbers
Government ID numbers
Health and medical information

Before the notice: the ransomware gang RansomHub named WEL Companies on its leak site on 25 February 2025, 267 days before this was reported. Matched by the organisation’s name: the notice itself does not say who the attacker was.

Sources

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

If WEL Companies had your data

Look for WEL Companies, Inc.’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
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 WEL Companies, Inc., 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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