Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians 2026 Data Breach
Healthcare / Multi-Specialty Physician Group / Consumer
Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians 2026 Data Breach: 50,000+ Patients Exposed via PEAR
Salt Lake City medical group practice (including bariatric care).
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
100/100
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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.
154k rowsRecords
2026Year
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Crucial data exposed
SSNSocial Security Number
FinancialFinancial Account (bank/card)
PHI / MedicalHealth Insurance Information; Medical Diagnosis; Medical Record Number
AddressHome address
Breach Summary
On January 30, 2026 the PEAR cybercriminal group claimed roughly 1.7 TB of Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians data. Exposed data included patient PII/PHI, financial account (bank/card) details, health insurance information, medical diagnoses, medical record numbers and, for some, dates of birth. The practice disclosed about 50,640 affected to HHS.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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154k rows records analyzed
About Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians
Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians, P.C. is a Salt Lake City, Utah multi-specialty medical group, known in part for bariatric and general surgical care.
Why They Hold Your Data
A medical group 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 practice disclosed the breach to HHS in April 2026 after the PEAR group posted claims on its leak site.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Financial Account (bank/card) High
Full Name
Health Insurance Information High
Home address High
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Medical Record Number High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
As a HIPAA-covered physician group, 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
- 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.
- 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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