2026 Carient Heart & Vascular — PEAR ransomware leak-site claim (unverified; Jul 15)
Data compromised
PEAR/Ransomware.live listing (discovered July 15, 2026; estimated attack date June 23, 2026) did not publish an attested patient count or field inventory in public tracker summaries—unverified
Technical writeup
Unverified ransomware leak-site claim — observed July 15, 2026. Ransomware.live indexed Carient Heart & Vascular (carient.com), a Northern Virginia heart and vascular practice, as a PEAR group listing with an estimated attack date of June 23, 2026. Public tracker pages describe the victim and show a leak screenshot but do not provide a company-attested individual count or confirmed PHI inventory. Class-action investigation pages cite the same PEAR claim. Carient had not issued a matching public breach confirmation or HHS OCR-attested total at indexing time. BreachHistory indexes recordsAffected 0 labeled unverified pending company or regulator confirmation.
Root cause
Unverified PEAR ransomware/extortion leak-site listing alleging Carient Heart & Vascular (Northern Virginia cardiology) as a victim—company had not confirmed at catalog time