Western Orthopaedics 2025 Data Breach
Healthcare provider · Orthopedic care and surgery · Specialty clinic network · USA
Western Orthopaedics Surgical Practice Breach (2025): 113K Patient Records Including SSN Exposed
Orthopedic surgery and musculoskeletal care practice.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
69/100
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.
113KRecords
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
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Between approximately September 17 and 25, 2025, an unauthorized party accessed and exfiltrated data from Western Orthopaedics, P.C. On October 4, 2025, the PEAR ransomware group claimed the attack on its dark-web leak site. Initially unconfirmed, the practice later confirmed the breach and notified 113,330 individuals in 2026. DataBreach.com’s independent parse of the leaked dataset confirmed circulating fields: names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and Social Security numbers. The company’s notification additionally reported that dates of birth and financial account, credit/debit card, and medical information may have been involved; those categories were not confirmed in the parsed circulating dump. Affected individuals were offered credit monitoring through Epiq. (Note: DataBreach parsed field-level tallies such as 193,000 phone numbers; the confirmed affected-individual count is 113,330.)
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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113K records analyzed
About Western Orthopaedics
Western Orthopaedics, P.C. is an established orthopedic surgery and musculoskeletal care practice based in the Denver/Englewood, Colorado area, in operation since 1938. It provides conservative and surgical treatment for injuries of the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, back, hip, knee, ankle, and foot, along with imaging, physical therapy, and durable medical equipment services. The practice is affiliated with the HCA HealthONE system.
Why They Hold Your Data
Orthopedic clinic networks collect patient identity, contact, insurance, billing, appointment, imaging, and treatment records across specialty care operations.
Recent Developments
Western Orthopaedics joined the HCA HealthONE system. After an unauthorized party accessed its systems in September 2025, the practice confirmed the breach and notified 113,330 individuals in 2026, offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection through Epiq. Multiple law firms have since launched class-action investigations into the incident.
Data Points Exposed
5 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Security Number Critical
Breach Impact
The confirmed circulating data (names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and Social Security numbers) for more than 113,000 patients creates substantial identity-theft and phishing risk. The company’s notification also reported potential exposure of dates of birth, payment-card/financial account, and medical information; if those are in the full dump, identity-, payment-, and medical-fraud risk rises materially. The surgical-care context adds credibility to treatment- and billing-themed scams, and the incident has generated class-action liability.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Payment fraud and unauthorized charges using exposed financial account and card numbers | • Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using SSN and DOB | • Medical identity fraud and insurance abuse using health information | • Targeted phishing and vishing referencing orthopedic/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.
- 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: 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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