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Watsonville Community Hospital

Claimed by Termite · listed 2 years ago

300 GB
Data size
000 files records
19m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 11, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Termite
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Dec 11, 2024
Data size
300 GB
Records
000 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Watsonville Community Hospital is a community healthcare provider in Watsonville, California, serving the Pajaro Valley region. The hospital offers comprehensive services including cardiac & vascular care, diagnostic imaging, emergency department, pediatrics, robotic surgery, and specialty care. It is operated as a public health care district facility.

Industry
Healthcare & Hospitals
Address
75 Nielson Street, Watsonville, CA 95076

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 300 GB of data from a healthcare provider constitutes exposure of regulated medical data (PHI/PII at scale), patient records, and sensitive health information subject to HIPAA. Large-scale healthcare data breaches pose direct harm to patients and organizational integrity.

The Termite group claims to have exfiltrated 300 GB of hospital data. The group has published the victim entry on their leak site with proof images, indicating confirmed data theft.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Electronic health records (EHR)
  • Billing and insurance information
  • Personal identifiable information (PII)
  • Hospital operational data

What the group claims

Watsonville Community Hospital is community healthcare provider; a 106-bed facility that offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services to the culturally diverse tri-county area along California’s Central Coast.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Watsonville Community Hospital

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post June 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 11, 2024Watsonville Community Hospital listed by Termiteon the group's public leak site
Data size
300 GB
Records
000 files

Other recent disclosures by Termite

Termite has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Termite dossier →

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, Watsonville Community Hospital is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Termite means Watsonville Community Hospital 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 Termite'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.