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Hospitaltechnik Planungsgesellschaft mbH

listed as ht-hospitaltechnik.de · Claimed by Blackout · listed 2 years ago

27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 18, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackout
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Apr 18, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hospitaltechnik Planungsgesellschaft mbH is a German consulting firm specializing in planning and advisory services for university hospitals, general hospitals, and healthcare facilities. They provide expertise in medical technology, laboratory technology, operational organization, and IT infrastructure across multiple healthcare institutions.

Industry
Healthcare Consulting & Medical Technology Planning
Address
Hohenzollernstraße 11, 47799 Krefeld, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Healthcare consulting firm with access to sensitive hospital infrastructure designs and institutional data. Disclosure confirmed and data published by Blackout, but truncated leak post provides no visibility into proof files or exfiltrated data volume. No ransom demand stated.

The Blackout ransomware group claims to have breached ht-hospitaltechnik.de's network. The leak post is truncated and provides no detail on the scope of exfiltration, encryption status, or specific data compromised.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Healthcare facility planning documents
  • Project specifications
  • IT infrastructure designs
  • Client hospital information

What the group claims

Why don't medical companies pay us? As usual we got into the network ht-h...

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackout

Blackout is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in February 2024, with their primary motivation appearing to be financial gain through extortion activities. The group has demonstrated relatively limited scope with nine documented victims to date, but has shown geographic diversity in their targeting across Greece, France, Germany, Canada, and Croatia. Their sector preferences indicate a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation/logistics industries, suggesting they may target organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security firms and government agencies, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and operational structure remain largely undocumented in open-source intelligence reporting. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported in connection with this group's activities. Given the February 2024 first observation date and the relatively small victim count, Blackout appears to be a newly active but minor player in the ransomware landscape, though their current operational status and potential growth trajectory remain subjects for continued monitoring by threat intelligence analysts. The group has been linked to 9 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 26, 2024; most recent post December 10, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 18, 2024ht-hospitaltechnik.de listed by Blackouton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackout

Blackout has been linked to 9 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, ht-hospitaltechnik.de is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackout means ht-hospitaltechnik.de 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Blackout'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.