Texas Digestive/Family Health Specialists 2025 Data Breach
ObscureIQ Breach Intelligence
High SeverityWebsite / service breach
Texas Digestive & Family Health Specialists Breach (2025): 42K Patient Records Including Medical Diagnoses, SSN & DOB Exposed
Medical practice focused on digestive and family health care.
Verified by ObscureIQ Intelligence
74/100Breach Risk Index
57Data Value
25Market Recency
387dSince Breach
Breach Intelligence Summary
Entity: Texas Digestive/Family Health Specialists · Actor: Interlock · Sources: 2 references
Attack: Ransomware / Extortion
Profile: Healthcare provider · Gastroenterology and family medicine · Specialty clinic network · USA
Timeline: Breach (2025-06-02) · Year (2025)
Exposure: 42K records · 7 fields: Date of Birth, Full Name, Health Insurance, Medical Diagnosis, Phone Number, Physical Address, Social Security Number
Status: Confirmed
Executive Summary
On June 2, 2025, the Interlock ransomware group completed exfiltration of data from Texas Digestive Specialists (listed on its leak site as "Family Health Specialists") and deployed ransomware, after gaining a foothold in late May 2025. Interlock claimed roughly 263 GB across 215,245 files. The practice later confirmed the incident and notified approximately 41,521 individuals. Exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical records/diagnoses, and health insurance information. Third-party researchers downloaded sample data from the leak; the breach is catalogued by DataBreach.com and reported to HHS/state regulators.
ObscureIQ assessment: Severe risk of identity theft, medical fraud, and privacy harm. Specialty-care and family-medicine context also supports targeted scams tied to treatment, prescriptions, or billing.
Breach Impact
The exposure of identity and clinical data (Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical records, and insurance information) for roughly 41,500 patients creates substantial identity-theft, medical-fraud, and insurance-abuse risk. Gastroenterology-specific diagnoses (for example colorectal findings or weight-loss procedures) add sensitivity and blackmail/embarrassment potential, and the delayed notification widened the exposure window for affected patients.
About Texas Digestive/Family Health Specialists
Texas Digestive Specialists (also operating as Family Health Specialists) is a multi-location gastroenterology and family-medicine practice serving the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, with clinics in McAllen, Brownsville, and Harlingen. It maintains patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, scheduling, and treatment records across gastroenterology and primary-care operations.
Why They Hold Your Data
Specialty clinic networks collect patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, appointment, and treatment records across gastroenterology and family medicine operations.
Recent Developments
Initially unacknowledged, the practice began issuing patient notifications in late July 2025, roughly two months after the attack, and now faces multiple class-action investigations. The Interlock group listed the practice on its dark-web leak site under the label "Family Health Specialists."
Data Points Exposed
7 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Full Name High
Health Insurance
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Phone Number
Physical Address High
Social Security Number Critical
Field names are shown in full for clarity and search visibility. Canonical machine keys are emitted only in this page’s structured data.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
Threat Activity:Critical
Primary downstream threats:
- Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using diagnosis and insurance data
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN and DOB
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth
- Blackmail or embarrassment using sensitive GI diagnoses
- Targeted phishing and vishing referencing gastroenterology care
- Doxxing and physical targeting from exposed home addresses
Threat vectors:
- Medical extortion, insurance fraud & discrimination
- Full identity theft & synthetic identity fraud
- Identity verification bypass
- Name-based social engineering
- SIM swapping, vishing & SMS phishing
- Physical stalking, mail fraud & identity verification
- Home targeting, stalking & physical threat
Threat Actor: Interlock
Interlock
Ransomware / Extortion
Attribution and method are based on available breach intelligence. Reported attack vector: Ransomware / Extortion.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happened in the Texas Digestive/Family Health Specialists breach?▾
On June 2, 2025, the Interlock ransomware group completed exfiltration of data from Texas Digestive Specialists (listed on its leak site as "Family Health Specialists") and deployed ransomware, after gaining a foothold in late May 2025. Interlock claimed roughly 263 GB across 215,245 files. The…
What data was exposed?▾
Verified fields include Date of Birth, Full Name, Health Insurance, Medical Diagnosis, Phone Number, Physical Address, Social Security Number.
What should I do if I was affected?▾
Change reused passwords, enable MFA, and (if identity or financial data is involved) freeze your credit and monitor your accounts.
Sources & References
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