Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 31, 2022Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad listed by hiveon 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, Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad is reported in Spain, a country with 212 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 31, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Dec 31, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad is a private healthcare group headquartered in Cartagena, Spain, founded in 1981. It operates 2 hospitals, 20 polyclinics, 23 physiotherapy clinics, 16 dental clinics, 1 aesthetic clinic, and 1 ophthalmological clinic across the Region of Murcia and Orihuela Costa. The group employs more than 600 healthcare, administrative, and patient-care professionals.

Industry: Private Healthcare & Medical Services
Address: Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain
Employees: 600+
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a large private healthcare group; data_published status confirms exfiltration of data that almost certainly includes regulated medical and personal health information (PII at scale, medical records) for a patient population served by 2 hospitals and dozens of clinics.

The Hive ransomware group claimed an attack on Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad and published data (disclosed status: data_published). The post implies exfiltration of data from a private healthcare provider holding sensitive patient and operational records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Personal identification information
Administrative and HR records
Healthcare operational data
Insurance and billing information

What the group claims

Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad, a private health company with its own identity that was born in 1981 in the city of Cartagena, where it is headquartered, currently has 2 hospitals (Cartagena and Caravaca), 20 polyclinics, 23 physiotherapy clinics and 16 dental clinics , which are distributed throughout different parts of the Region of Murcia and Orihuela Costa. In addition, the group has 1 aesthetic clinic (Cartagena), plus 1 Ophthalmological clinic (Cartagena). The health entity that is committed to global, close, accessible and highly qualified care, is made up of more than 600 professionals (including health, administrative and patient care personnel) whose purpose is to offer a wide range of services on a daily basis under the better and more complete health care. All our centers are equipped with the most advanced technology, an essential support, which together with our highly qualified human capital, has made us, over almost 40 years of activity, a benchmark in private medicine in the Region of Murcia. We welcome you to Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad, where new challenges are not a problem but a challenge for growth and improvement in private healthcare .

Sources

Victim sitecmvcaridad.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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