{"id":266811,"date":"2026-06-07T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:50:13","slug":"dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people\/","title":{"rendered":"DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/193274\/data-breach\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html\">DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/193274\/data-breach\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/193274\/data-breach\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-07 14:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><h2>DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span> Pierluigi Paganini<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/themes\/security_affairs\/images\/clock-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> June 07, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?fit=1136%2C652&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cybercrime gang added the company to its Tor data leak site in May, and the data was released after negotiations reportedly failed. The breach could affect approximately 2.6 million individuals whose information may have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?resize=1024%2C588&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?resize=1024%2C588&#038;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?resize=300%2C172&#038;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?resize=768%2C441&#038;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png?w=1136&#038;ssl=1 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company published a notice confirming it is responding to a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited part of its network. The company quickly moved to contain the attack and says its systems remain operational with minimal disruption. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DentaQuest is working with cybersecurity experts, forensic investigators, and law enforcement to determine the scope of the breach and any data exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDentaQuest is actively managing a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited portion of our network. \u00a0Upon discovery of the initial incident, we took immediate action to secure our environment, contain the attack and mitigate the threat.\u201d reads the notice. \u201cOur systems remain fully operational, and we continue to serve our clients with limited disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The benefits administrator has reported the incident to the authorities, but has not disclosed technical details about the security breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the data breach notification service HaveIBeenPwned, the leaked data includes 2.6 million email addresses, along with names, phone numbers, addresses, and healthcare-related records, some containing Medicaid IDs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn May 2026, the dental benefits administrator\u00a0DentaQuest was the target of a ShinyHunters \u201cpay or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/193274\/data-breach\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/193274\/data-breach\/dentaquest-breach-shinyhunters-publish-data-impacting-2-6m-people.html Publish Date: 2026-06-07 14:56:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-21.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-266811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266813,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266811\/revisions\/266813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}