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Skyline Implants & Periodontics

listed as Ferrell \ Skyline Implants & Periodontics \ Dr. Scott Ferguson · Claimed by Barracuda · listed 2 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Barracuda
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Aug 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Skyline Implants & Periodontics is a dental practice specializing in implant and periodontal treatment, operated by Dr. Scott Ferguson. The practice maintains patient medical records and procurement documentation.

Industry
Dental Practice (Implants & Periodontics)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of protected health information (PHI) at scale including medical imaging and patient records, subject to HIPAA and similar healthcare privacy regulations. 800 GB dataset with multiple patient records represents significant regulated data exposure.

Barracuda claims to have exfiltrated approximately 800 GB of data from Skyline Implants & Periodontics, including patient medical imaging files (DICOM format), personal photographs, practitioner personal data, and business records related to equipment and pharmaceutical procurement.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • DICOM imaging files (MRI scans)
  • Patient personal photos
  • Practitioner personal data (Dr. Scott Ferguson)
  • Equipment procurement records
  • Pharmaceutical procurement records

What the group claims

Full personal and servers files dumps from Skyline Implants & Periodontics company. The data files contain: medical documents of patients (including MRI scans of various parts of the body — files with the .dcm extension), personal photos, and the personal data of the doctor, Scott Ferguson, as well as documents from the company Skyline Implants & Periodontics — in particular, information on equipment and pharmaceutical procurement and other related materials. | Status: free | Size: 800 GB | Now free

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Barracuda

Barracuda is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, though limited public reporting exists given its recent emergence and relatively small confirmed victim count of four organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with established threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems have not been publicly confirmed by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time. Based on available victim telemetry, Barracuda has demonstrated a targeting pattern focused on manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sector organizations, with victim distribution concentrated across China, the United States, and South Korea, suggesting either opportunistic targeting within these regions or deliberate selection based on perceived ransom-paying capacity; specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or data exfiltration practices remain undocumented in open-source reporting. No major high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly documented, which is consistent with the group's nascent operational timeline and low confirmed victim count. Given its first observation date of August 2026 and the absence of substantial public intelligence, Barracuda should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat whose full capabilities, affiliations, and operational scope remain to be established through continued tracking by the security research community. The group has been linked to 4 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 6, 2026Ferrell \ Skyline Implants & Periodontics \ Dr. Scott Ferguson listed by Barracudaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Barracuda

Barracuda has been linked to 4 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 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Barracuda means Ferrell \ Skyline Implants & Periodontics \ Dr. Scott Ferguson 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Barracuda'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.