Precise Benefits Group LLC 2025 Data Breach

Precise Benefits Group 2025 Data Breach: Benefits Data Exposed via INC Ransom

Financial Services / Employee Benefits Brokerage / Enterprise / Consumer

Precise Benefits Group 2025 Data Breach: Benefits Data Exposed via INC Ransom

US employee-benefits brokerage and consulting firm.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
95/100
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.
130k rowsRecords
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 / MedicalHealth Insurance Information
Classification Tags
INC RansomRansomware / ExtortionFinancial ServicesInsurancePlan Members/Employees2025

Breach Summary

Around December 17, 2025 Precise Benefits Group disclosed a breach claimed by INC Ransom; exposed data for about 130,000 individuals included names, health insurance information and Social Security numbers.

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

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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130k rows records analyzed

About Precise Benefits Group LLC

Precise Benefits Group is a US employee-benefits brokerage and consulting firm administering group health and benefits programs for employer clients.

Why They Hold Your Data

A benefits brokerage holds member identity and contact data, SSNs and health-insurance enrollment information handled for employer group plans.

Recent Developments

The INC Ransom group claimed the breach, discovered around December 17, 2025.

Data Points Exposed

3 verified field types
Full Name
Health Insurance Information High
Social Security Number Critical

Breach Impact

As a benefits intermediary handling PHI, the breach carries HIPAA notification exposure across multiple employer groups.

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A financial-institution breach: account, wealth or payment data supports direct fraud and highly credible financial-impersonation scams. 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. Watch for medical-benefit fraud and health-themed phishing that references real provider relationships.
  3. 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: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
IR
Threat Actor: INC RansomConfidence: High
Ransomware group

Motivation: Financial extortion
A ransomware and data extortion group active since at least July 2023. MITRE describes it as targeting industrial, healthcare, and education sectors in the United States and Europe.

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