Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY 2026 Data Breach
Healthcare / Gastroenterology & Hepatology / Consumer
Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY 2026 Data Breach: Sensitive Diagnoses Exposed via Exitium
Central New York gastroenterology and hepatology medical practice.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
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High and current: recent, valuable data circulating on the dark web now.
Data Sensitivity i
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197k rowsRecords
2026Year
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Crucial data exposed
SSNSocial Security Number
PHI / MedicalMedical Diagnosis; Medical Diagnosis (behavioral health)
Breach Summary
On April 14, 2026 the Exitium group claimed patient data from Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, describing about 167,303 patient records including roughly 124,761 with Social Security numbers, extensive diagnosis and medication records, and pathology reports. The actor highlighted that nearly 50,000 patients had sensitive diagnoses including mental-health, substance-abuse, STI, cancer and hepatitis C conditions.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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197k rows records analyzed
About Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY
Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY is a Central New York specialty practice providing digestive-health and liver care.
Why They Hold Your Data
A gastroenterology and hepatology practice 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 Exitium data-extortion group claimed the breach in April 2026, publicizing highly sensitive diagnosis categories.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Full Name
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Medical Diagnosis (behavioral health) Critical
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As a HIPAA-covered specialty practice, the breach carries OCR notification, class litigation and patient-trust damage; the Exitium 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
- Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
- Watch for medical-benefit fraud and health-themed phishing that references real provider relationships.
- 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: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: ExitiumConfidence: Medium
Motivation: Financial extortion
A data-extortion actor first observed early 2026 running a Tor-based double-extortion leak site and appending a .exitium extension; contact via the Tox messaging platform.
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