Was Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia hit by ransomware?

Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia was listed by the pear ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the pear ransomware group?

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Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia

Claimed by Pear · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia is a cardiovascular and vascular healthcare provider serving the Northern Virginia region. The organization specializes in expert heart and vascular care services.

Industry: Healthcare – Cardiology & Vascular Care

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Listed as a ransomware victim with likely access to regulated healthcare data (patient PII and protected health information), but no proof files, data samples, or specific attack details are disclosed in the post. The listing alone on a ransomware leakboard indicates compromise but without demonstrated exfiltration proof, confidence remains moderate.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia and lists it among multiple victims in their disclosure post. No specific details about encryption, data exfiltration, or proof of access are provided in the post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Health information
Potentially billing records

What the group claims

Expert resource for heart and vascular care in Northern Virginia

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia

Sources

Leak posthttp://peargxn3oki34c4savcbcfqofjjwjnnyrlrbszfv6ujlx36mhrh57did.onion

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 160 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post September 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia listed by pear on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 160 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full pear dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Heart and Vascular Care Northern Virginia appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on pear's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.