OBI Seafoods, LLC Data Breach Notice (Oregon Attorney General)

The data breach at OBI Seafoods, LLC means that personal information belonging to 19,014 people is now outside the company’s control. The incident occurred on August 12, 2024. The company filed its notification with the Oregon Department of Justice on March 19, 2025 — an interval of 219 days, or roughly seven months.

What the 219-Day Gap Changes for You

That length of time is the single most concrete fact in the filing. It tells you the organisation took more than half a year from the incident date to notify affected Oregon residents. State law sets different clocks depending on when an investigation concludes, so the gap alone does not prove fault. It does, however, give any unauthorised party who obtained the data a long head start before the people named in it could begin protecting themselves.

The Only Category Named in the Record

The filing lists one category: personal information. No passwords, no financial account numbers, no medical details, and no government identifiers such as Social Security numbers appear in the disclosed list. This is genuine good news. Because no permanent identifiers were exposed, the long-term risk profile is lower than in many breaches that reach this page.

Still, names combined with contact details and other personal information can support targeted fraud attempts. Criminals may use it for phishing, account takeover attempts on unrelated services, or impersonation schemes that begin with “We have your records from OBI Seafoods.”

How to Know Whether This Breach Affects You

OBI Seafoods is required to notify affected individuals directly, almost always by postal mail to the last address they have on file. If you have not received a letter, it is likely your information was not included. However, if you have moved since August 12, 2024, a letter may have gone to an old address. In that case, contact OBI Seafoods directly to confirm whether you were in the group of 19,014 people whose records were involved.

What Remains Permanent and What You Can Still Control

Because the record names only generic personal information and no reissueable credentials or biographic identifiers, nothing exposed here is permanently tied to your identity in the way a Social Security number would be. You cannot change your name or date of birth, but the filing gives no evidence those specific fields were taken.

What you can control is how future organisations and services verify your identity. The breach itself does not force you to freeze credit or place alerts, yet the passage of seven months makes it rational to treat any unsolicited contact claiming to come from OBI Seafoods with extra skepticism.

The Practical Difference Seven Months Makes

Seven months is long enough for stolen personal information to circulate in lower-tier criminal markets. It is also long enough for many people to have changed addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses without notifying every vendor. That increases the chance that any letter sent by OBI Seafoods never reached its intended recipient.

The absence of exposed credentials means you do not need to reset any password connected to OBI Seafoods. Doing so would be wasted effort. The exposure that matters is the non-secret personal information that cannot be rotated like a password.

Concrete Actions That Match This Specific Exposure

• Watch for phishing that references OBI Seafoods. Any email, text, or call claiming to be from the company about this incident is almost certainly fraudulent. Delete and do not click.
• Review your mail carefully for the next several weeks. If a letter from OBI Seafoods arrives, read it for any additional details about exactly which fields applied to you.
• If you have moved since August 2024, reach out to the company. Confirm whether your records were part of the 19,014 affected so you are not left wondering.
• Treat any unexpected account-verification requests as suspicious. Personal information from this breach could be used to make a fraudulent request appear more legitimate on another service.
• Keep records of any contact you make with OBI Seafoods. Note dates, names, and reference numbers in case you later need to prove you tried to verify your status.

The filing is narrow. It tells us only that personal information belonging to 19,014 people left OBI Seafoods’ custody on or around August 12, 2024, and that the company waited until March 19, 2025 to notify Oregon authorities. Nothing in the record describes how the incident happened, whether data was copied, or how long it may have been accessible. Those details remain unknown to everyone outside the investigation.

What is known is limited but actionable. The letter is the definitive test of whether you are one of the 19,014. In its absence, and especially after a seven-month delay, the safest posture is measured vigilance rather than panic. The information exposed cannot be changed, but the way you respond to future requests that cite this incident remains entirely under your control.