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Memorial Hospital and Manor

listed as mh-m.org · Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

1.15 TB
Data size
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 5, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Embargo
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Nov 5, 2024
Data size
1.15 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Memorial Hospital and Manor is a 80-bed community hospital operated by the Hospital Authority of the City of Bainbridge and Decatur County in southwest Georgia. Founded in 1960 and celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010, it provides acute care, intensive care, long-term care, and specialized services including orthopedics, cardiology, and women's services to Decatur County and surrounding tri-state areas.

Industry
Healthcare — Hospital & Long-Term Care
Address
1500 E. Shotwell Street, Bainbridge, GA 39819
Founded
1960

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 1.15 TB of data from a healthcare provider. Healthcare institutions hold regulated patient data (HIPAA-protected PHI including medical records and personally identifiable information) at scale. Large-volume exfiltration of such data poses significant regulatory, privacy, and identity-theft risks.

The Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated 1.15 TB of data from Memorial Hospital and Manor. The specific data types targeted are not detailed in the leak post, though healthcare organizations typically hold patient medical records, personal health information, and financial/billing data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Personal health information (PHI)
  • Financial/billing records
  • Institutional operational data

What the group claims

Memorial Hospital and Manor celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2010. Memorial Hospital was officially dedicated on Sunday, April 3, 1960, and opened its doors to receive patients the following day. The 80-bed hospital was built under the Hill-Burton Hospital Survey & Construction Act of 1946. The Hill-Burton Act initiated the concept of local, state, and federal cost sharing of healthcare facilities, and provided federal funds for construction and renovation of more than 9,000 medical facilities, particularly in lower income areas. While two-thirds of the money was provided by the Federal government and the State of Georgia, Memorial Hospital has always been operated by the Hospital Authority of the City of Bainbridge and Decatur County. Prior to the opening of Memorial Hospital, two private hospitals served the healthcare needs of Decatur and surrounding counties. In 1916, Riverside Hospital was built and operated by Dr. J. D. Chason, Dr. Gordon Chason, Dr. R. F. Wheat, and Dr. Willie Lee Wilkinson. Shortly after the Riverside Hospital was built, Dr. A.E.B. Alford came to Bainbridge and built the Bainbridge Hospital. The Flint River provided easy access to these hospitals for people in rural areas and nearby towns, making Bainbridge a healthcare center for the tri-state area. Memorial Hospital was given its name in memoriam to those pioneers who made Bainbridge the medical center of Southwest Georgia, Northern Florida, and Southeastern Alabama for many decades. - 1.15 TB Data

Sources

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

  • November 5, 2024mh-m.org listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site
Data size
1.15 TB

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, mh-m.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 mh-m.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.