2026 Heart of America Medical Center — Jun 2025 access; notices 2026; Embargo claims ~800GB
Data compromised
Names, Social Security numbers, medical records, and other medical information (per notice summaries)
Technical writeup
Verified Heart of America Medical Center (Rugby, ND) patient notifications — data review concluded May–June 2026; notification list finalized July 9, 2026. Incident identified ~June 12, 2025; unauthorized access/exfiltration confirmed Sep 15, 2025. Embargo ransomware claimed ~800 GB. National OCR census not cited in secondary summary. Distinct from heart-of-america-eye-care-hack2026. recordsAffected 0; companyConfirmed true.
Root cause
Unauthorized network access and file exfiltration around June 12, 2025 (confirmed Sep 15, 2025); Embargo ransomware claimed ~800GB