Was Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad hit by ransomware?

Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad was listed by the Hiveleak ransomware operation (Spain), 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 Hiveleak ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad breach?

Hiveleak published data attributed to Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad

listed as Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad · Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 4 years ago

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 31, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hiveleak
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 founded in 1981 and headquartered in Cartagena, Spain. The group 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. It employs more than 600 professionals and is a benchmark provider of private medicine in the Region of Murcia.

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

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a multi-site private healthcare provider treating thousands of patients across Spain; the disclosure status is data_published, indicating confirmed exfiltration of data that almost certainly includes regulated medical and personal health information (PII) at scale for both patients and staff.

The Hiveleak ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad and has published it, with the disclosure status listed as data_published. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data size or proof file count was advertised in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient health records
Administrative personnel records
Patient care staff data
Medical centre operational data
Insurance/coverage 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 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hiveleak

Hiveleak is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, conducting targeted attacks primarily against organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany with a focus on manufacturing, business services, information technology, healthcare, and education sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding this group's specific country of origin or affiliations with other ransomware operations, though their targeting patterns and operational timeline suggest they operate as part of the broader ransomware ecosystem that proliferated during the 2021-2022 period. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in major threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or leading security research firms, though their victim count of 208 organizations indicates sustained operational capability over their known active period. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, suggesting the group may have maintained a lower profile compared to major ransomware operations like Conti or LockBit during the same timeframe. The current operational status of Hiveleak remains unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. 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 Hiveleakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hiveleak

Hiveleak has been linked to 208 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, Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hiveleak means Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Hiveleak'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.