Was weisermemorialhospital.org hit by ransomware?

weisermemorialhospital.org was listed by the Embargo ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Embargo ransomware group?

Embargo is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the weisermemorialhospital.org breach?

Embargo published data attributed to weisermemorialhospital.org (~200 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Weiser Memorial Hospital

listed as weisermemorialhospital.org · Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

200 GB

Data size

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2024
Data size: 200 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Weiser Memorial Hospital is a full-service not-for-profit community hospital serving Washington County and surrounding areas since 1950. It operates multiple clinical facilities including a Surgical and Specialty Clinic and Family Medical Center providing family medicine and specialist access.

Industry: Healthcare - Community Hospital
Address: Washington County, Idaho (inferred; specific address not stated)
Founded: 1950

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Healthcare provider breach with 200 GB of exfiltrated data (likely including patient PII and protected health information). Confirmed data publication by ransomware group. Regulated sector (HIPAA) with probable PHI exposure at scale.

The Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 200 GB of data from Weiser Memorial Hospital. The post names three individuals allegedly responsible and provides contact information, suggesting a breach of hospital operational and patient records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Hospital operational data
Personnel information
Administrative records

What the group claims

Weiser Memorial Hospital is a full service not-for-profit community hospital that has been serving the healthcare needs of Washington County and surrounding areas since 1950. In recent years, the hospital has grown to include the Surgical and Specialty Clinic that provides access to numerous specialists, as well as Family Medical Center, a family practice clinic that provides access to local family physicians. - 200 GB Data Adam Hollman likes to waste time. Persons Responsible: Adam Hollman ( [email protected] +1-612-887-1547) David Allwein ( [email protected] +1-208-230-1092 ) Steven Hale ( [email protected] +1-808-282-6001 / +1-208-549-4450)

Sources

Victim siteweisermemorialhospital.org
Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion/#/post/37

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Embargo

Embargo is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across multiple sectors. The group has been observed targeting victims predominantly in the United States, Singapore, India, and France, with particular emphasis on technology, healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial sectors. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details about their country of origin, operational structure, and technical methodologies remain largely unconfirmed by established security research organizations. With 37 known victims identified since their emergence, Embargo appears to follow established ransomware operational patterns typical of financially-motivated cybercriminal groups, though comprehensive analysis of their attack vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics has not yet been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare and financial services aligns with broader ransomware trends observed throughout 2024, though specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current observations, Embargo appears to remain active, though the limited timeframe since their emergence and sparse public documentation makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post June 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2024weisermemorialhospital.org listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Data size: 200 GB

Other recent disclosures by Embargo

Embargo has been linked to 40 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, weisermemorialhospital.org is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means weisermemorialhospital.org appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. 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 Embargo'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.