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Heavenly Dental

listed as heavenly-dental.com · Claimed by Obscura · listed 9 months ago

9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Obscura
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Heavenly Dental is a general and family dentistry practice located in San Fernando, California, serving the greater Los Angeles area since 1985. The practice is led by Dr. S. Sean Naffas and Dr. Elham Partovi, both with USC School of Dentistry affiliations, and offers a broad range of services including cosmetic, restorative, preventive, and emergency dentistry. It serves communities across San Fernando, Pacoima, Sylmar, and surrounding areas.

Industry
Dental & Oral Health Services
Address
103 N. Maclay Avenue, San Fernando, CA 91340
Founded
1985

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare/dental practice whose data is classified as disclosed/published; exfiltrated data almost certainly includes protected health information (PHI) and personal identifiable information (PII) of patients, which constitutes regulated medical data under HIPAA, warranting a critical severity rating.

The ransomware group 'obscura' claims to have published data exfiltrated from Heavenly Dental, with the leak post indicating the data has been fully published. The post references a leak of an unspecified number of gigabytes from a business with revenue under $5 million.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient records
  • Personal health information (PHI)
  • Dental treatment records
  • Patient insurance and financing information
  • Practice administrative data

What the group claims

Revenue: $<5kk | Leak Size: xx GB | Status: Published

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About obscura

Obscura is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has compromised at least 33 known victims since their emergence, demonstrating rapid operational capabilities despite their recent entry into the ransomware landscape. Limited public documentation exists regarding their country of origin, operational structure, or affiliations with established ransomware families, though their targeting pattern suggests either opportunistic attacks or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. Their victim profile spans multiple sectors including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and construction, with geographic focus on the United States, Malaysia, Portugal, Egypt, and Denmark, indicating either broad targeting criteria or access to varied attack infrastructure across different regions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from major security vendors and law enforcement agencies, specific details regarding their technical capabilities, encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, or ransom demands remain undocumented in open-source intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of late 2025, though insufficient time has elapsed to determine their long-term operational sustainability or potential law enforcement attention. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 5, 2025; most recent post January 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2025heavenly-dental.com listed by obscuraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by obscura

obscura has been linked to 33 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full obscura dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, heavenly-dental.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by obscura means heavenly-dental.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on obscura's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.