Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare provider · Orthopedic care and surgery · Specialty medical practice · USA
Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute (TX) Orthopedic Breach (2025): Patient Medical, SSN & DOB Records Exposed via PEAR Ransomware
Orthopedic and sports medicine practice.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
87/100
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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.
480KRecords
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
PHI / MedicalMedical Diagnosis
AddressPhysical address
Breach 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.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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480K records analyzed
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
Health Insurance
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical
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.
Exploitation & 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
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.
- 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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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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