Acadia Healthcare email incidents expose patients’ personal information
Email security incidents at US behavioural healthcare company Acadia Healthcare in March and July 2026 resulted in files containing personal information being acquired without authorisation. The exposed information includes names and Social Security numbers, as well as diagnosis, treatment, insurance and financial information for some patients. The company disclosed the incidents but did not release the number of people affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Acadia Healthcare
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-03
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised acquisition of files containing personal information through email security incidents
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNameHealth & medical data
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Timeline
- Acadia Healthcare’s personal information breach and the possibility of legal action became known.
- It became known that the information exposed in Acadia Healthcare’s breach included Social Security numbers.
- The company disclosed that files containing personal information had been acquired without authorisation through email security incidents in March and July 2026.
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