Was Clínica Villa Zaita hit by ransomware?

Clínica Villa Zaita was listed by the Ciphbit ransomware operation (Panama), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Ciphbit ransomware group?

Ciphbit is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Clínica Villa Zaita breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Clínica Villa Zaita. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Clínica Villa Zaita

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 2, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Panama
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Dec 2, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Clínica Villa Zaita is a multi-specialty outpatient medical and dental clinic based in Ciudad de Panamá, Panama, operating two branches along Vía Transístmica. The clinic offers a broad range of services including general medicine, numerous medical specialties (cardiology, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics, urology, etc.), dentistry, clinical laboratory, radiology, ultrasound, and telemedicine. It maintains digitized patient records accessible online by physicians and serves patients seven days a week.

Industry: Outpatient Medical & Dental Clinic
Address: Vía Transístmica, Centro Comercial Omni diagonal a Farmacias Julios, Villa Zaita, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama (Sucursal Villa Zaita); Vía Transístmica, Plaza Zaita, Local 13, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama (Sucursal Plaza Zaita)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare clinic holding digitized patient records including sensitive medical, laboratory, and personal health information (regulated health data/PII). The disclosed status is data_published, confirming exfiltration and public release of this sensitive data at scale.

The Ciphbit ransomware group claims an attack against Clínica Villa Zaita with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating patient and operational data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom demand or data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Digital clinical files
Laboratory results
Personal health information (PII)
Appointment and contact data
Staff/physician records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Victim siteclinicavillazaita.com

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Ciphbit

Ciphbit is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across Western nations. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With limited public documentation from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported in open-source intelligence. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 36 documented victims, primarily concentrating their operations in the United States, Italy, France, Germany, and Portugal, with a notable preference for targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction sectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Ciphbit have been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of current reporting. Based on available intelligence, Ciphbit appears to remain active as of late 2023, though their relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation make definitive status assessments challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post February 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 2, 2025Clínica Villa Zaita listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

Ciphbit has been linked to 36 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, Clínica Villa Zaita is reported in Panama, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Clínica Villa Zaita 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 Ciphbit'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.