Breaches and incidents
Bright Smile Dental Care (Fishers, Indiana): ransomware hits server, data was encrypted at rest, 7,601 notified
HIPAA Journal reports a ransomware attack identified on 3 Aug 2026 on a server holding practice management, imaging and EHR software.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- HIPAA Journal reports a ransomware attack identified on 3 Aug 2026 on a server holding practice management, imaging and EHR software; HHS OCR lists 7,601 affected. The practice says patient data on the server was encrypted and the decryption keys are not believed to have been obtained.
- Root cause: not disclosed beyond ransomware on the server.
- No attacker named.
- Experts engaged; credit monitoring offered where SSNs were on the server.