Was Medical University of the Americas hit by ransomware?

Medical University of the Americas was listed by the Snatch ransomware operation (Nevis), 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 Medical University of the Americas breach?

Snatch published data attributed to Medical University of the Americas. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Medical University of the Americas

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 21, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: Nevis
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jun 21, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Medical University of the Americas (MUA) is a Caribbean medical school located on the island of Nevis, with over 25 years of experience training physicians. It offers MD and BSc/MD programs accredited by the Accreditation Commission on Colleges of Medicine (ACCM), with clinical rotations conducted in the U.S. and Canada. Its graduates practice primarily in the U.S. and Canada, and it participates in U.S. Title IV federal student aid programs.

Industry: Medical Education & Higher Education
Address: Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Caribbean

Attack summary

Severity: critical — MUA is a medical university whose systems likely contain regulated PII at scale, including student personal and financial records, medical education records potentially tied to U.S. federal student aid (Title IV), and faculty/staff data. The 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration and public release, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked MUA and has published data ('data_published' status), suggesting exfiltration of institutional data. The leak post does not specify encryption or provide details on data volume, but disclosure status indicates data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Admissions data
Financial aid information
Faculty and administration records
Academic records

What the group claims

Newly Reduced Tuition Makes MUA Accessible and Affordable. It is a great time to get started on your medical education! At MUA we recently lowered our tuition, which made us MUA the most affordable Caribbean medical school that is approved to participate in U.S. Federal

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 21, 2023Medical University of the Americas listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 2,603 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Medical University of the Americas is reported in Nevis.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Medical University of the Americas 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 Snatch'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.