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Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. / Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC

Claimed by Exitium · listed 3 months ago

167303 patients, 124761 SSN, 1093863 diagnoses, 1547142 medications, 186246 pathology specimens
Records
2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Exitium
Status
Data leaked
Country
USA
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
May 29, 2026
Records
167303 patients, 124761 SSN, 1093863 diagnoses, 1547142 medications, 186246 pathology specimens

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A gastroenterology and hepatology medical practice in Syracuse, New York, operated by five physicians (Drs. Romano, Buniak, Gosselin, and others) with an affiliated AAAHC-accredited ambulatory surgery center (Digestive Disease Center of CNY) specializing in endoscopic procedures including colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, and ERCP.

Industry
Healthcare — Gastroenterology & Hepatology Practice with Endoscopy Surgery Center
Address
Syracuse, New York, USA
Employees
11-50

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale protected health information (PHI) including 167,303 patient records with SSNs, diagnoses, and medications. Includes sensitive mental health, substance abuse, and STI data plus identifiable records of public figures. Violates HIPAA and state medical privacy laws; poses severe identity theft, financial fraud, and blackmail risk.

The exitium group claims to have exfiltrated the complete patient database containing 167,303 patient records with extensive personally identifiable information, medical diagnoses, medications, and pathology reports. The group published detailed inventory of the data breach, including sensitive diagnoses for 46,181 patients (mental health, substance abuse, STIs, cancer, hepatitis C) and notes the presence of records for notable public figures.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 167,303 patient records
  • 124,761 social security numbers
  • Patient names and addresses (99% of records)
  • Patient phone numbers (98% of records)
  • Patient email addresses (51% of records)
  • 1,093,863 ICD-10 diagnoses
  • 1,547,142 medication records
  • 186,246 pathology specimen reports with narratives
  • Mental health diagnoses (39,784 patients)
  • Substance/alcohol abuse diagnoses (5,111 patients)
  • STI diagnoses (2,779 patients)
  • Cancer diagnoses (2,546 patients)
  • Hepatitis C diagnoses (1,906 patients)
  • Records of notable individuals (politicians, businesspeople, public figures)

What the group claims

GI practice and AAAHC-accredited endoscopy center located in Syracuse, New York, USA. Full patient database exposed including SSNs, sensitive diagnoses, medications, and pathology reports. Includes notable individuals (politicians, businesspeople, public figures).

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Website: fannincad.org Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/fannin-central-appraisal-district/1117264519 Exfiltrated: 400 GB of data
Website: marborges.com Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/marborges-agroindustria/547271801 Company in Brasil with a bad security.
Website: mhe.com.tw Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/ming-hwei-energy-co-ltd/446006038 A small private B2B firm (11–50 staff, <$5M revenue), part of a Taiwanese fastener conglomerate. Manufacturer of solar cells in a niche where Taiwanese firms are consistently undercut by Chinese pricing. Their infra encrypted.
Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. (gandhofcny.com) + Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC (ddcofcny.com). GI practice + AAAHC-accredited endoscopy center. Syracuse, New York, USA. Full database — 167,303 patients, 124,761 SSN, 46,181 with sensitive diagnoses: - 167,303 patients — 124,761 with SSN, 166,402 (99%) with address, 164,296 (98%) with phone, 85,318 (51%) with email - 1,093,863 diagnoses (ICD-10), 1,547,142 medications, 186,246 pathology specimens with narrative reports - Sensitive (dx + meds): 46,181 patients — 41,645 with SSN. Mental health: 39,784 | Substance/Alcohol: 5,111 | STIs: 2,779 |…

Data the group says was taken

  • patient records
  • SSNs
  • addresses
  • phone numbers
  • email addresses
  • ICD-10 diagnoses
  • medications
  • pathology specimens
  • mental health records
  • substance/alcohol records
  • STI records
  • cancer records
  • hepatitis C records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. / Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About exitium

Exitium is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in March 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited but documented attack patterns. Given the recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about the group's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations remain unclear to security researchers and law enforcement agencies. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented due to their recent appearance and small victim count, though they appear to target specific sectors rather than conducting widespread campaigns. Exitium has been observed targeting organizations in the United States and Brazil, with a particular focus on the agriculture and food production sector as well as public sector entities, suggesting possible strategic targeting of critical infrastructure. The group remains active as of their recent emergence, though their limited victim count of two documented cases indicates they are either highly selective in their targeting, newly operational, or operating at a smaller scale compared to established ransomware groups. The group has been linked to 11 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 17, 2026; most recent post August 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 29, 2026Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. / Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC listed by exitiumon the group's public leak site
Records
167303 patients, 124761 SSN, 1093863 diagnoses, 1547142 medications, 186246 pathology specimens

Other recent disclosures by exitium

exitium has been linked to 11 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full exitium dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. / Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC is reported in USA, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by exitium means Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY, P.C. / Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC 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 exitium'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.