The Vascular Experts 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare provider · Vascular and surgical care · Specialty medical practice · USA
The Vascular Experts Surgical Practice Breach (2025): 154K Patient Records Including Medical Diagnoses, SSN & DOB Exposed
Vascular surgery and vein care practice.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
87/100
Lower riskHigher risk
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.
154KRecords
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 / MedicalMedical Diagnosis
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Suspicious activity was first identified on May 7, 2025 on the IT systems of the Southern Connecticut Vascular Center, part of The Vascular Experts. The INC Ransom (INC_RANSOM) group claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack. The organization confirmed the personal and medical information of more than 154,000 individuals was compromised, including full names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, detailed medical/treatment information, and health insurance details. The Vascular Experts engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and began notifying affected individuals; multiple class actions followed. The breach is catalogued by DataBreach.com. (Note: prior record count of 9,806 was a partial parse; the confirmed figure is 154,000+.)
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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154K records analyzed
About The Vascular Experts
The Vascular Experts is a network of board-certified vascular surgeons providing vein care and vascular surgery across Connecticut, operating locations including the Southern Connecticut Vascular Center. It maintains patient identity, insurance, billing, imaging, and treatment records tied to specialty cardiovascular and vascular care.
Why They Hold Your Data
Specialty vascular practices collect patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, appointment, and treatment records tied to surgical and vascular care workflows.
Recent Developments
Following the May 2025 ransomware attack, The Vascular Experts investigated with third-party firms, notified law enforcement, and began notifying more than 154,000 affected individuals. Several class-action lawsuits have since been filed alleging inadequate data-security measures.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Health Insurance
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
The breach exposed identity, contact, and clinical data, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and detailed treatment and insurance information, for more than 154,000 patients with serious cardiovascular conditions. The exposure creates substantial identity-theft, medical-fraud, and privacy risk, adds credibility to treatment- and billing-themed scams, and has generated significant class-action liability.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using treatment and insurance data | • Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN and DOB | • Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth | • Targeted phishing and vishing referencing vascular/surgical care | • Doxxing and physical targeting from exposed home addresses
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.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- 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).
IR
Threat Actor: INC RansomConfidence: High
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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