Neurosurgeons of New Jersey Data Breach
Healthcare / Neurosurgical Specialty Practice / Multi-location physician group / United States (New Jersey)
Neurosurgeons of New Jersey 2023 Data Breach
New Jersey neurosurgical practice (Neurosurgical Associates of NJ) operating across 11 locations, treating brain and spine conditions.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
52/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
2725.0Records
Year
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Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Neurosurgeons of New Jersey detected unauthorized access to an employee email account on October 4, 2023 and, unable to determine whether data was acquired, notified affected patients and filed with HHS on December 4, 2023. Roughly 2,725 individuals were affected, with exposed protected health information including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health-insurance policy numbers, medical record and patient-account numbers, and medical history and treatment information.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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2725.0 records analyzed
About Neurosurgeons of New Jersey
Neurosurgeons of New Jersey (Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey) is a neurosurgical specialty practice based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, operating across roughly 11 locations and treating brain, spine and nervous-system conditions. It is one of the larger neurosurgery groups in the state.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a neurosurgical provider, the practice holds protected health information including patient names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health-insurance policy numbers, medical record and account numbers, and medical history and treatment information collected for care and billing.
Recent Developments
The practice detected suspicious activity in a corporate email account on October 4, 2023 and filed a breach notice with HHS on December 4, 2023; unable to rule out access, it notified all affected patients. Investigation and litigation followed.
Data Points Exposed
2 verified field types
Phone Number
Physical address High
Breach Impact
A neurosurgical-practice breach exposing SSNs together with health-insurance and clinical data is high-severity per patient, combining identity-theft and health-privacy harm and triggering HIPAA notification, state reporting and litigation. The email-account vector reflects a common healthcare exposure pathway.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing using exposed personal information | • Credential reuse attacks across linked accounts
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.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- 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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