Pecan Tree Dental 2026 Data Breach
Healthcare / Dental Practice / Consumer
Pecan Tree Dental 2026 Data Breach: Patient PHI Exposed via Sinobi Ransomware
Texas dental practice (Grand Prairie area).
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
82/100
Lower riskHigher risk
High and current: recent, valuable data circulating on the dark web now.
Data Sensitivity i
ElevatedExposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
25k rowsRecords
2026Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
PHI / MedicalHealth Insurance Information; Medical Diagnosis
AddressHome address
Breach Summary
On or around January 11, 2026 Pecan Tree Dental suffered a ransomware attack claimed by Sinobi. Exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information and medical/dental information for about 13,300 Texas residents.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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25k rows records analyzed
About Pecan Tree Dental
Pecan Tree Dental, PLLC is a Texas dental practice in the Grand Prairie area providing general and specialty dental care.
Why They Hold Your Data
A dental practice holds patient identity and contact data, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance and, in clinical records, diagnoses, test results and treatment history (PHI).
Recent Developments
The practice continues to operate. It disclosed a January 2026 ransomware incident claimed by the Sinobi group.
Data Points Exposed
5 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Full Name
Health Insurance Information High
Home address High
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Breach Impact
As a HIPAA-covered practice, it faced OCR notification and patient-trust damage despite its small size.
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A healthcare-linked breach: exposure ties a named individual to a provider relationship and, where clinical or insurance data is present, to conditions and treatment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Watch for medical-benefit fraud and health-themed phishing that references real provider relationships.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: SinobiConfidence: Low
Motivation: Unknown
A low-confidence alias without enough reliable public sourcing for a stable threat actor profile. It may be a misspelling, short-lived alias, or forum handle.
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