Coos County Family Health Services 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare provider · Community health services · Regional care network · USA
Coos County Family Health Services (NH) Community Health Center Breach (2025): 40K Patient Records Including Medical Info & SSN Exposed via RunSomeWarez
New Hampshire nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) providing primary, dental, and behavioral-health care.
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Breach Risk Index i
86/100
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.
40KRecords
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; Medical Record Number
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Coos County Family Health Services, a New Hampshire federally qualified health center, detected suspicious activity on July 9, 2025 and confirmed on August 12, 2025 that an unauthorized actor may have accessed or copied files containing PII and PHI. The RunSomeWarez ransomware group claimed responsibility on August 13, 2025. The incident affected 40,185 individuals (35,609 in NH, 1,222 in ME, 365 in MA). Exposed data included names, dates of birth, contact information, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, and medical information. It was disclosed to HHS on September 5, 2025; notifications began October 8, 2025.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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40K records analyzed
About Coos County Family Health Services
Coos County Family Health Services is a New Hampshire nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) providing primary care, dental, behavioral-health, and community health services to the rural Coos County region and surrounding areas. It maintains patient identity, insurance, billing, and clinical records, often serving underserved populations.
Why They Hold Your Data
Community healthcare providers collect patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, and clinical records tied to primary and regional care delivery.
Recent Developments
Coos County Family Health Services detected suspicious network activity on July 9, 2025; a review completed August 12, 2025 confirmed PII and PHI were involved. The RunSomeWarez ransomware group claimed the attack on August 13, 2025. The breach was disclosed to HHS on September 5, 2025, and notifications to 40,185 individuals began October 8, 2025, with TransUnion/Cyberscout monitoring offered. Reporting indicated this followed a prior ransomware incident; class-action investigations followed.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Medical Record Number High
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As a community health center serving a largely rural, underserved population, the exposure of Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical identification numbers, and medical information creates serious identity-theft and medical-fraud risk for patients who may have fewer resources to respond. The breach affected 40,185 individuals across New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using medical info and medical ID numbers | • Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN and DOB | • Targeted phishing and vishing referencing community-health or clinic care | • Doxxing and physical targeting from exposed home addresses | • Heightened harm to underserved patients with fewer recovery resources
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).
R
Threat Actor: RunSomeWarezConfidence: Low
Motivation: Unknown
A handle appearing as the claimed source of a circulating dataset. No substantive public threat-intelligence reporting was found; treat as an opportunistic or one-off alias pending corroboration.
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