Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 410 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post May 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 5, 2026crawfordorthodontics.net listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, crawfordorthodontics.net is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Crawford Orthodontics

listed as crawfordorthodontics.net · Claimed by Lynx · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Crawford Orthodontics is a U.S.-based orthodontic dental practice operating under the domain crawfordorthodontics.net. The practice provides orthodontic care services to patients, likely including children and adults. No further details on location or scale are available from the provided sources.

Industry: Orthodontic Dental Practice

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Crawford Orthodontics is a healthcare provider, and any confirmed data exfiltration from a dental/orthodontic practice almost certainly involves regulated patient health information (PHI) covered under HIPAA, constituting a critical-severity breach of sensitive medical and personal data.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Crawford Orthodontics and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of data from the practice. The specific data types and volume have not been detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records
Personal health information (PHI)
Employee records
Financial records

What the group claims