Ransomware victim disclosure

DentaQuest, LLC

listed as DentaQuest, LLC. · Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DentaQuest is a US-based healthcare company operating in the dental benefits and insurance sector. The company provides dental coverage and related services to members.

Industry: Healthcare - Dental Benefits & Insurance

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Healthcare sector with confirmed exfiltration of 234GB+ of data containing likely member/patient records (PII at scale) from a dental insurance provider; data has been published.

ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated 234GB+ (compressed) of data from DentaQuest after the company failed to reach a ransom agreement. The group has published the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

company records
member/patient data
business files

What the group claims

The company failed to reach an agreement with us despite our incredible patience, all the chances and offers we made. They don't care. | Size: 234GB+ (compressed) | Updated: 30 May 2026 | SHA256: db3088225c36be26ce2b458fa7a190176d071441e2e0830c0d82143e6323a3e1

Sources

Victim sitedentaquest.com

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post May 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 30, 2026DentaQuest, LLC. listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,780 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DentaQuest, LLC. is reported in US, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.