Waterford Surgical Center 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare provider · Outpatient surgical services · Ambulatory surgery center · USA
Waterford Surgical Center (MI) Outpatient Surgery Breach (2025): 9K Patient & Staff Records Including SSN, Driver's License, Medical & Payment Data Exposed via SafePay
Outpatient surgery center.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
91/100
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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.
9KRecords
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
Gov IDDriver’s License
PHI / MedicalMedical Diagnosis
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Waterford Surgical Center, a physician-owned ambulatory surgery center in Waterford, Michigan, was hit by the SafePay ransomware group, which claimed the attack on September 1, 2025; the center detected unauthorized access on September 3, 2025. Approximately 9,000 current and former patients and employees were affected per HHS disclosure. Exposed data may include names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, emails, Social Security numbers, driver’s license/state ID copies, health insurance information, medical records, and payment information. The breach is catalogued by DataBreach.com and reported to HHS.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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9K records analyzed
About Waterford Surgical Center
Waterford Surgical Center is a physician-owned ambulatory (outpatient) surgery center in Waterford, Michigan, providing same-day surgical procedures across specialties. It maintains patient identity, insurance, billing, scheduling, and surgical-treatment records, along with employee records.
Why They Hold Your Data
Ambulatory surgery centers collect highly sensitive patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, appointment, and surgical treatment records across outpatient care workflows.
Recent Developments
The SafePay ransomware group claimed an attack on Waterford Surgical Center on September 1, 2025; the center discovered unauthorized access on September 3, 2025. Approximately 9,000 patients and employees were affected per HHS disclosure. Class-action investigations followed.
Data Points Exposed
10 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Driver’s License Critical
Email Address
Financial Account
Full Name
Health Insurance
Medical Diagnosis Critical
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
The exposure combined identity, government-ID, financial, and clinical data (SSNs, driver’s licenses, payment information, health insurance, and medical records) for roughly 9,000 patients and staff, an unusually complete bundle for a small surgery center that enables identity theft, payment fraud, and medical fraud. The surgical-care context also supports credible treatment- and billing-themed scams.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Full identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN, DOB, and driver’s license | • Payment fraud using exposed payment information | • Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using medical records and insurance data | • Targeted phishing and vishing referencing surgical care or billing | • 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).
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Threat Actor: SafePayConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial extortion
A ransomware group identified in late 2024 that became highly active in 2025. Reporting describes it as a double-extortion group using LockBit 3.0-derived tooling, with a strong victim concentration in North America.
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