SUS Brazil 2024 Data Breach

SUS Brazil (DataSUS) 2024 Data Breach: National Patient Database Replica Circulated

Healthcare / National Public Health System / Government / Consumer

SUS Brazil (DataSUS) 2024 Data Breach: National Patient Database Replica Circulated

Brazil's public health system (SUS) and its DataSUS national patient database.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
62/100
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.
178.0MRecords
2024Year

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
Gov IDGovernment ID
AddressPhysical address
Classification Tags
Social EngineeringHealthcareMedicalPatients2024

Breach Summary

In mid-to-late 2024 a dark-web actor posted what was claimed to be a full replica of Brazil's DataSUS national patient database, circulating records on roughly 177 million people including full names, national identifiers, phone numbers and home addresses.

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

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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178.0M records analyzed

About SUS Brazil

SUS (Sistema Unico de Saude) is Brazil's national public health system; DataSUS is its national patient and health-information database covering the Brazilian population.

Why They Hold Your Data

A national public-health database holds citizen/patient identity data, national identifiers (CPF), addresses and health-system records at population scale.

Recent Developments

In late 2024 a dark-web trader posted what was claimed to be a full replica of the DataSUS patient database.

Data Points Exposed

5 verified field types
Full Name
Government ID Critical
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical

Breach Impact

A population-scale exposure of national health-system identity data, raising systemic identity-fraud and government-data-protection concerns across Brazil.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure

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. Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
  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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