If Amplifon Americas sends you a breach notice, use the 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection it is offering. Treat any email that mentions the company with suspicion until you can verify it.
The hearing care company said unidentified attackers were inside its network by January 18, 2026 at the latest. Between then and February 8, they copied personal data from its servers. Amplifon spotted the intrusion on February 11, notified law enforcement and began an investigation, which it concluded on October 6.
The stolen data includes names, contact details, dates of birth, driver license or other state ID numbers, and other government-issued ID numbers. It also covers hearing and medical information, medical record numbers, dates of service, and health insurance ID numbers and details. Financial information and Social Security numbers were exposed for "a limited number of individuals", the company said. It added that it is not aware of any fraudulent use of the data.
How many people are affected is unsettled. A breach notice filed in Texas lists 85,804 residents, and one in Vermont lists 1,027. Together that is at least 86,831 people in two states. A California notice gave no figure. The Maine Attorney General's public database, a usual place to find national counts, is still offline. Several class action law firms put the total at 1,332,826, but that number is unconfirmed, and Amplifon is not responding to media inquiries.
The company did not say how the attackers got in. It did say it disabled "impacted accounts", which hints at a compromised employee login, though that is an inference and not something Amplifon confirmed. No hacking group has claimed the attack. Extortion crews usually name their victims and post file samples to pressure them, so the quiet is unusual.
The mix of data matters more than the Social Security numbers. A password can be reset and a card can be reissued, but a medical history cannot. That makes records like these useful for impersonation long after a credit monitoring subscription ends.