Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 6, 2026Laclinic-Montreux listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Laclinic-Montreux is reported in CH, a country with 27 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Laclinic-Montreux

Claimed by qilin · listed 14 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: CH
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Laclinic-Montreux (laclinic.ch) is a private clinic specialising in aesthetic surgery and aesthetic medicine located in Montreux, Switzerland. The clinic offers cosmetic and surgical procedures to patients in the Lake Geneva region. It operates as a boutique medical facility typical of the Swiss private healthcare sector.

Industry: Aesthetic Surgery & Medical Aesthetics Clinic
Address: Laclinic, Avenue de Collonge 37, 1820 Montreux, Switzerland
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare clinic handling sensitive patient medical and personal data (regulated health data); the disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of likely regulated PII and medical records.

The Qilin ransomware group claims an attack on Laclinic-Montreux, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data has been released. The specific data types and volume have not been detailed in the available leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records
Medical/clinical data
Personal health information
Staff/employee records
Financial/billing records

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 14 days ago

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