Was Communicare Inc. hit by ransomware?

Communicare Inc. was listed by the Daixin ransomware operation (United States), 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 Daixin ransomware group?

Daixin 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 Communicare Inc. breach?

Daixin published data attributed to Communicare Inc.. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Communicare Inc.

Claimed by Daixin · listed 10 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Daixin
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Communicare, Inc. is a community mental health center headquartered in Kentucky's Lincoln Trail ADD District, serving eight counties. Founded in 1967, the organization provides behavioral health, developmental and intellectual disability, and substance abuse services to over 10,000 clients annually. It operates as one of fourteen state-designated Community Mental Health Centers in Kentucky and offers 24/7 crisis services.

Industry: Behavioral Health & Mental Health Services
Address: Lincoln Trail ADD District, Kentucky (counties of Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington), United States
Founded: 1967

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Communicare is a healthcare provider handling highly sensitive regulated data including mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability records for over 10,000 patients annually — all categories protected under HIPAA and among the most sensitive classes of medical information. The data has been published by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration of PII and protected health information at scale.

The Daixin ransomware group claims to have attacked Communicare, Inc. and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of sensitive information from a behavioral health provider serving thousands of patients with mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability records.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient behavioral health records
Mental health treatment data
Substance abuse service records
Developmental and intellectual disability records
Employee/staff information
Client personal identifying information

What the group claims

Communicare, Inc. has been a premier provider of behavioral health services in Kentucky's heartland since 1967.

Sources

Victim sitecommunicare.org

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Daixin

Daixin is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly documented sources, though their targeting patterns suggest sophisticated operational capabilities and potential access to healthcare sector vulnerabilities. Daixin employs typical ransomware attack methodologies including data exfiltration prior to encryption, implementing double extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment by threatening to release stolen sensitive information alongside system encryption. The group has demonstrated a pronounced targeting preference for healthcare organizations, which represents a significant portion of their documented victims, alongside government entities and financial services organizations. Their geographic focus centers heavily on the United States while also targeting victims across Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Canada, indicating either broad operational reach or collaboration with regional affiliates. With 21 documented victims since their emergence, Daixin represents a relatively newer but active threat actor in the ransomware landscape. Current intelligence suggests the group remains operationally active as of recent assessments, continuing to pose threats to critical infrastructure sectors, particularly healthcare organizations that may be viewed as high-value targets due to the sensitive nature of their data and operational dependencies. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 3, 2022; most recent post September 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 11, 2025Communicare Inc. listed by Daixinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Daixin

Daixin has been linked to 21 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, Communicare Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Daixin means Communicare Inc. 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Daixin'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.