Nevada Dental Practice Notifying 1.2M of Hack

Absolute Dental Says Breach Involved Third-Party Managed Services Firm Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • August 29, 2025

A Nevada dental practice is notifying more than 1.2 million individuals of a hacking incident that compromised sensitive health and personal information.

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Absolute Dental initially reported the hacking incident to federal regulators in May as affecting a placeholder estimate of 501 people. But this week the practice significantly increased that estimate on breach reports filed to some state attorneys general.

The practice's description in a breach notice of the incident involved the "inadvertent execution of a malicious version of a legitimate software tool, which occurred through an account associated with Absolute Dental's third-party managed services provider," suggests to some experts that it might have been among a rash of recent attacks involving ...