Dermatology management services giant QualDerm suffered a cyberattack in late 2025 which saw it lose sensitive personal and healthcare data on more than three million people.
The company is now notifying affected individuals by mail, noting in a breach notification letter that between December 23 and 24, 2025, a threat actor managed to access “a limited number of systems” and pull “certain information” stored within. That data includes a combination of people’s names, email addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, diagnosis and treatment information.
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