Huge Breach at Gargle Affects Millions of Dental Patients
A data leak exposed 2.7 million patient profiles and 8.8 million appointment records due to a misconfigured MongoDB database. Researchers at Cybernews discovered the publicly accessible database on March 26, 2025. The exposed data included individuals' names, dates of birth, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, gender, chart IDs, language preferences, billing details, and appointment records. Gargle, a Utah-based company providing services for dental practices, is believed to be the entity whose data was exposed.
Signal context
First seen: Mar 26, 2025
Last updated: Jun 26, 2026
Status: Public signal
Key points
- Discovery date: March 26, 2025.
- Affected individuals: 2.7 million patient profiles, 8.8 million appointment records.
- Data exposed: Names, DOBs, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, gender, chart IDs, language preferences, billing details, appointment records.
Signal analysis
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Sector: Health Care and Social Assistance
Likely country: Location not provided
Watch process controls, misconfiguration and accidental disclosure paths.
- Source type: outside the affected organization
Impact area: Confidentiality
Likely asset: User or customer data, Server or cloud data store
- 6 signals in the same sector
- 90 signals with the same likely impact area
- 1 signal linked to this organization/domain
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