Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute 2025 Data Breach
ObscureIQ Breach Intelligence
High SeverityWebsite / service breach
Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute (TX) Orthopedic Breach (2025): Patient Medical, SSN & DOB Records Exposed via PEAR Ransomware
Orthopedic and sports medicine practice.
Verified by ObscureIQ Intelligence
87/100Breach Risk Index
60Data Value
40Market Recency
280dSince Breach
Breach Intelligence Summary
Entity: Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute · Actor: PEAR · Sources: 2 references
Attack: Ransomware / Extortion
Profile: Healthcare provider · Orthopedic care and surgery · Specialty medical practice · USA
Timeline: Breach (2025-08-20) · Indexed (Oct 01, 2025) · Year (2025)
Exposure: 480K records · 8 fields: Date of Birth, Email Address, Full Name, Health Insurance, Medical Diagnosis, Phone Number, Physical Address, Social Security Number
Status: Confirmed
Executive Summary
Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute, an orthopedic and sports-medicine practice in Beaumont, Texas, was hit by the PEAR ransomware group, which claimed the attack on September 4, 2025 and posted it on its dark-web leak site. Exposed data may include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, medical records, and payment information. The official affected-individual count has not been released; a DataBreach.com record cites ~479,537, which likely reflects total records/archive size rather than distinct individuals (early reporting suggested several thousand). The exact count remains unverified.
ObscureIQ assessment: Severe risk of identity theft, medical fraud, and privacy harm. Orthopedic-care context can also support targeted scams tied to surgery, injury, or rehabilitation.
Breach Impact
The exposure combined identity and clinical data (Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health insurance, and medical records) tied to orthopedic and surgical care, creating identity-theft, medical-fraud, and insurance-abuse risk. Orthopedic/injury context supports credible treatment-, rehabilitation-, and billing-themed scams.
About Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute
Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute is an orthopedic and sports-medicine practice based in Beaumont, Texas, providing musculoskeletal care, surgery, imaging, and rehabilitation. It maintains patient identity, insurance, billing, imaging, and treatment records tied to orthopedic care.
Why They Hold Your Data
Orthopedic practices collect patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, appointment, imaging, and treatment records tied to musculoskeletal care and surgery.
Recent Developments
The PEAR ransomware group claimed an attack on Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute, posting on its dark-web leak site on September 4, 2025 and asserting it had exfiltrated sensitive data. The practice had not released a confirmed affected-individual count (early reporting suggested several thousand). Class-action investigations followed.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name High
Health Insurance
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Phone Number
Physical Address High
Social Security Number Critical
Field names are shown in full for clarity and search visibility. Canonical machine keys are emitted only in this page’s structured data.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
Threat Activity:Critical
Primary downstream threats:
- Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using diagnosis and insurance data
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN and DOB
- Targeted phishing and vishing referencing orthopedic surgery, injury, or rehabilitation
- Doxxing and physical targeting from exposed home addresses
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
Threat vectors:
- Medical extortion, insurance fraud & discrimination
- Full identity theft & synthetic identity fraud
- Name-based social engineering
- SIM swapping, vishing & SMS phishing
- Physical stalking, mail fraud & identity verification
- Home targeting, stalking & physical threat
Threat Actor: PEAR
PEAR
Ransomware / Extortion
Attribution and method are based on available breach intelligence. Reported attack vector: Ransomware / Extortion.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happened in the Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute breach?▾
Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute, an orthopedic and sports-medicine practice in Beaumont, Texas, was hit by the PEAR ransomware group, which claimed the attack on September 4, 2025 and posted it on its dark-web leak site. Exposed data may include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security…
What data was exposed?▾
Verified fields include Date of Birth, Email Address, Full Name, Health Insurance, Medical Diagnosis, Phone Number, Physical Address, Social Security Number.
What should I do if I was affected?▾
Change reused passwords, enable MFA, and (if identity or financial data is involved) freeze your credit and monitor your accounts.
Sources & References
Every claim on this page is traceable. This breach draws on:
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