Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons 2026 Data Breach
Healthcare / Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery / Consumer
Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons 2026 Data Breach: 128,000 Patients Exposed via PEAR
Arkansas oral and maxillofacial surgery provider.
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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.
190k rowsRecords
2026Year
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Crucial data exposed
SSNSocial Security Number
PHI / MedicalMedical Diagnosis
Breach Summary
Around April 10, 2026 the PEAR ransomware group claimed a breach of Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, threatening to release patient data. Reporting indicates roughly 128,000 patients were affected, with exposed data including names, medical/dental information and Social Security numbers.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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190k rows records analyzed
About Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
Arkansas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons is an Arkansas surgical practice providing oral and maxillofacial surgical care across multiple locations.
Why They Hold Your Data
A oral surgery 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 PEAR ransomware group claimed the attack around April 2026; the practice notified affected patients.
Data Points Exposed
3 verified field types
Full Name
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As a HIPAA-covered surgical practice, the breach carries OCR notification, class litigation and patient-trust damage; the PEAR extortion added public-leak pressure.
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
- Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
- 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: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: PEARConfidence: Low
Motivation: Unknown
An ambiguous label without enough reliable public sourcing for a stable threat actor profile. It may refer to a short-lived group, handle, acronym, or non-actor entity.
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