EyeMed Vision Care Notifies Members After File Sent to Wrong Email Address

What the notice says

EyeMed Vision Care, LLC notified vision benefit plan members of a data privacy incident in a notice filed with the California Attorney General, reported 2026-10-30. The notice explains that on September 22, 2026, EyeMed sent a file containing member information to an incorrect email address.

EyeMed states it identified the issue the same day and that the event involved a single misdirected email. EyeMed also states that the incident did not involve a compromise of its broader systems.

The information in the file involved vision plan members and may have included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and member identification numbers.

EyeMed is offering identity monitoring services through Kroll, covering credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration.

What the notice leaves open

The notice as filed does not state how many individuals were affected overall or specify the length of the identity monitoring enrollment period, leaving the service duration as a placeholder in the template. It also does not describe what became of the misdirected email after it was sent.