Expert MRI 2026 Data Breach

Expert MRI 2025 Data Breach: 209,000 Patients Exposed via PEAR Ransomware

Healthcare / Diagnostic Imaging / Consumer

Expert MRI 2025 Data Breach: 209,000 Patients Exposed via PEAR Ransomware

California diagnostic imaging (MRI) provider.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
100/100
Lower riskHigher risk
High and current: recent, valuable data circulating on the dark web now.
Data Sensitivity i
Elevated
Exposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
443k rowsRecords
2026Year

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Crucial data exposed
SSNSocial Security Number
PHI / MedicalMedical Diagnosis
AddressHome address
Classification Tags
PEARRansomware / ExtortionHealthcareMedicalPatients2026

Breach Summary

Between June 2 and August 24, 2025 unauthorized actors accessed Expert MRI's network; the PEAR group deployed ransomware and stole about 617 GB, first posting September 6, 2025. Exposed data included patient PII/PHI, medical diagnoses, dates of birth, home addresses and Social Security numbers. Expert MRI reported at least 209,560 individuals affected.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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443k rows records analyzed

About Expert MRI

Expert MRI is a California-based diagnostic imaging provider operating outpatient MRI and radiology centers.

Why They Hold Your Data

A diagnostic imaging provider holds patient identity and contact data, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance and, in clinical records, diagnoses, test results and treatment history (PHI).

Recent Developments

The practice disclosed the breach to HHS OCR after PEAR posted the data in September 2025.

Data Points Exposed

5 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Full Name
Home address High
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Social Security Number Critical

Breach Impact

As a HIPAA-covered imaging provider, the breach carries OCR notification, class litigation and patient-trust damage; the PEAR extortion added public-leak pressure.

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

  1. Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
  2. Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
  3. Watch for medical-benefit fraud and health-themed phishing that references real provider relationships.
  4. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
Ambiguous alias / group

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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