Advanced Family Surgery Center (Covenant Health) 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare / Surgical Center / Consumer
Advanced Family Surgery Center 2025 Data Breach: Patient PHI Exposed via Genesis Ransomware
Oak Ridge, Tennessee surgical center affiliated with Covenant Health.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
96/100
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.
15k rowsRecords
2025Year
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
SSNSocial Security Number
Gov IDGovernment ID (Medicare)
PHI / MedicalHealth Insurance Information; Medical Diagnosis; Medical Record Number
AddressHome address
Breach Summary
Advanced Family Surgery Center (Covenant Health) became aware of a network intrusion around November 26, 2025; on January 11, 2026 the Genesis ransomware group claimed about 100 GB of data. Exposed files included names, addresses, dates of birth, dates of service, health insurance information, medical diagnoses, medical record numbers, Medicare/Medicaid numbers, treatment information, provider names and Social Security numbers.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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15k rows records analyzed
About Advanced Family Surgery Center (Covenant Health)
Advanced Family Surgery Center is an Oak Ridge, Tennessee surgical facility affiliated with the Covenant Health network.
Why They Hold Your Data
A surgical center holds patient identity and contact data, dates of birth, SSNs, Medicare/Medicaid numbers, health insurance and clinical treatment records (PHI).
Recent Developments
Advanced Family Surgery Center identified an intrusion around November 26, 2025; the Genesis ransomware group claimed it in January 2026.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Full Name
Government ID (Medicare) Critical
Health Insurance Information High
Home address High
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Medical Record Number High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As a HIPAA-covered provider, the center faced OCR notification and litigation; reported victim counts rose sharply during the investigation.
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.
- 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: GenesisConfidence: Medium
Motivation: Financial extortion
An emerging ransomware group first observed late 2025 using double extortion, targeting small-to-mid US organizations in business services, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and construction; 90+ claimed victims by mid-2026.
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