Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center recently announced that unauthorized cybercriminals accessed information on its clinical network. Since the incident, hundreds of Fred Hutch patients have received threatening emails from cybercriminals. In these emails, cybercriminals claim that information for 800,000 patients was stolen in the Data Breach—including names, social security numbers, medical and insurance information, lab results and more—and demand payment to prevent the sale of that data. As a result of Fred Hutch’s relationship with UW Medicine, its computer systems and networks also house some University of Washington Medicine patient data, and that data may have been compromised in the data breach as well.
On December 8, 2023, Tousley Brain Stephens filed a class action complaint against Fred Hutch for negligence, breach of implied contract, and violation of the Washington Consumer Protection Act. If you received notice that your information was part of this breach, we want to hear from you. You can find more information on our Fred Hutchinson Data Breach page here.