Rite Aid, the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, suffered a data breach in June 2024 after an attacker impersonated a company employee to obtain business credentials and access customer systems. The intrusion, a social engineering attack, was detected and shut down within 12 hours. The ransomware group RansomHub claimed responsibility and published a sample of the stolen data. Approximately 2.2 million customers were affected, with records drawn from purchases made between June 2017 and July 2018. The exposed data included names, home addresses, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers. Because Rite Aid operates in a pharmacy context, affected individuals face elevated risk beyond standard identity theft. The combination of government-issued ID details and purchase history can enable targeted health-themed scams or expose sensitive care and medication relationships to bad actors. Rite Aid began notifying affected customers in July 2024 and offered identity monitoring services. A class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleged the stolen data had been stored unencrypted and that notification was unreasonably delayed. In March 2025, Rite Aid agreed to a $6.8 million settlement. Class members may be eligible for up to $10,000 in documented losses and two years of credit monitoring. Affected individuals should monitor their credit, watch for suspicious communications referencing health or pharmacy activity, and consider placing a fraud alert or credit freeze with the major credit bureaus.

Pharmacy retailers collect highly sensitive customer identity, contact details, prescription and pharmacy records, payment-adjacent data, loyalty activity, and healthcare-service interactions across retail and clinical workflows.

Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2023, citing federal lawsuits and financial liabilities related to the opioid crisis. It closed more than 700 stores as part of the restructuring and emerged from bankruptcy in September 2024 as a private company under a reorganization plan approved by a federal judge in June 2024. The 2024 data breach occurred during this bankruptcy and restructuring period.