swfldermatology.com 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare / Dermatology, Plastic Surgery & Laser Center / Specialty medical and cosmetic practice / United States (Southwest Florida)
swfldermatology.com 2025 Data Breach
Southwest Florida dermatology, plastic surgery and laser center providing medical, surgical and cosmetic skin care.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
65/100
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.
47KRecords
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.
Breach Summary
In late July 2025, SWFL Dermatology was compromised in a SafePay ransomware and extortion attack; SafePay claimed roughly 28GB of stolen data and listed the practice on its leak site around July 28, 2025. Roughly 46,844 records are associated with the entry, with exposed protected health information including patient names, email addresses, health-insurance information and clinical/treatment records.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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47K records analyzed
About swfldermatology.com
SWFL Dermatology (Southwest Florida Dermatology, Plastic Surgery & Laser Center) is a specialty medical practice in southwest Florida providing medical and surgical dermatology, plastic and cosmetic surgery and laser skin treatments to patients in the region.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a dermatology and plastic-surgery practice, SWFL Dermatology holds protected health information including patient names, contact details, health-insurance information, and clinical/treatment and cosmetic-procedure records collected for care and billing.
Recent Developments
On or about July 28, 2025 the SafePay ransomware group listed SWFL Dermatology, claiming a 28GB data theft. The practice's patient data was exposed through the group's leak channel.
Data Points Exposed
1 verified field types
Email Address
Breach Impact
A dermatology/plastic-surgery breach exposes sensitive medical and cosmetic-procedure information alongside identity and insurance data, raising HIPAA notification obligations, litigation risk and heightened privacy sensitivity given the cosmetic-care context. SafePay's extortion model raises the likelihood of public release if unpaid.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
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 the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- 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: SafePayConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial extortion
A ransomware group identified in late 2024 that became highly active in 2025. Reporting describes it as a double-extortion group using LockBit 3.0-derived tooling, with a strong victim concentration in North America.
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