Blueberry Pediatrics Data Breach: What Happened and What You Should Do
Blueberry Pediatrics disclosed a data breach affecting an unconfirmed number of people. Here's what is currently known about the incident, what information may have been exposed, and steps you can consider taking.
- Company
- Blueberry Pediatrics
- People affected
- Undisclosed
California AG sample notices and the company statement do not state a national patient headcount.
- Incident date
- August 9 – August 12, 2026
- Discovered
- August 22, 2026
- Disclosed
- October 9, 2026
- Information exposed
- Possibly: Name, Date of birth, Insurance information, Health information, Physical address, Phone number, Email address, Account information
- Status
- Notification underway
CA AG samples reported October 10, 2026; company statement October 9, 2026; help line 888-752-8498; privacy@blueberrymed.com.
What happened in the Blueberry Pediatrics breach?
How the attacker got in
Criminal exploitation of a Metabase vulnerability that allowed unauthorized administrator access and theft of a copy of certain Blueberry Medical patient data; related Photon Metabase exposure of an overlapping subset.
Reports conflict
Timeline of what is known
- 01August 9 – August 12, 2026Unauthorized access
- 02August 22, 2026Breach discovered
- 03October 9, 2026Breach disclosed publicly
- 04October 10, 2026Affected individuals notified
Dates come from the sources listed at the bottom of this page. Separate events are kept separate; where a date has not been disclosed, it says so.
What information was exposed?
The categories below come from Blueberry Pediatrics's disclosure and the sources listed on this page. Each is labeled by what the evidence supports. Categories not mentioned in any source are not listed, even if they are common in similar breaches.
Name
Name (company notice: may have been exposed).
Date of birth
Date of birth (company notice).
Insurance information
Health plan name and policy number (company notice).
Health information
Medical records, dates of service, medical codes, and charges; Photon subset may include medication information.
Physical address
Street address may have been involved in the related Photon incident subset.
Phone number
Phone number may have been involved in the related Photon incident subset.
Email address
Email address may have been involved in the related Photon incident subset.
Account information
Member ID may have been involved in the related Photon incident subset.
Why this information matters
The risks below are the ones associated with the categories of information involved in this breach. This describes how exposed information can be used in general. It does not state that any of this has happened with data from this incident.
Information from one breach can sometimes be combined with information from other breaches or public sources. A name and email address on their own are limited. Paired with a date of birth from one leak and an address from a people-search site, they become enough to answer a security question or make a scam call sound informed.
Whether the data from this breach has been sold, shared, or used is not known unless a source on this page says so. Where that is documented, it appears in the "What happened" section above.
If you were affected, consider doing these things now
Practical steps for this breach, in rough order of priority. None of these require buying anything. Monitoring services, including ours, are one option among several.
- 01Call Blueberry at 888-752-8498 (Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–9:00 PM Eastern) or email privacy@blueberrymed.com with questions about your notice.
- 02Review health-plan explanations of benefits and any pharmacy or medical statements for activity you do not recognize.
- 03Remain vigilant for phishing that references Blueberry Pediatrics, Blueberry Medical, Photon, Metabase, or a children's health record.
- 04Consider a fraud alert or credit freeze with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion even though Social Security numbers and payment card data were not involved.
- 05Verify any call or email claiming to be about the incident using the contact details in your written notice.
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How one breach can contribute to a larger exposure footprint
A possible risk pattern, not a description of this incident. Each step is something that can happen after a breach. Nothing here states that it has happened with data from this incident.
Illustrative pattern- Step 1
One breach
A single company's records are accessed without authorization.
- Step 2
Personal information is exposed
Some categories can be changed afterward. Others, like a name or date of birth, can't.
- Step 3
It may remain accessible
Copies of breached data can persist well beyond the original incident.
- Step 4
Sources can be combined
Fragments from different breaches and public sources may be assembled into a fuller profile.
- Step 5
More targeted attempts
A fuller profile can make fraud, impersonation, phishing, or social engineering attempts more convincing.
A breach is an event. Exposure can last longer.
A password can be reset and a card reissued. Some information can't be replaced, and that is the part that stays useful to someone attempting fraud later. This does not mean fraud will occur. It means the risk does not close when the news cycle does.
Involved in this breach and hard to change
None of the categories reported in this breach are in the hard-to-change group. Changeable items like passwords and account numbers should still be addressed.
What Blueberry Pediatrics has done so far
Only actions the company has announced or that are documented in the sources below. If something you'd expect to see isn't here, it hasn't been announced as of the last update.
Sources
Primary sources first: company disclosures, regulator and attorney general filings, SEC filings, court documents. News reporting is listed as secondary. Where reports conflict, the conflict is noted in the "What happened" section rather than resolved silently.
Last updated October 12, 2026 · First published October 12, 2026
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