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Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY

Claimed by Exitium · listed 3 months ago

400 GB
Data size
$5
Ransom
demanded
3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 14, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Exitium
Status
Data leaked
Country
NY
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Apr 14, 2026
Data size
400 GB
Ransom demanded
$5

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY (gandhofcny.com) is a gastroenterology and hepatology physician practice located in Syracuse, New York. It operates alongside an AAAHC-accredited endoscopy center and an affiliated entity, Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC (ddcofcny.com). The practice serves patients across Central New York.

Industry
Gastroenterology & Hepatology Medical Practice
Address
Syracuse, New York, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated medical data at large scale: 167,303 patient records including SSNs, highly sensitive health diagnoses (mental health, substance abuse, STIs, cancer, Hepatitis C), pathology reports, and PII — all categories protected under HIPAA. The breadth, sensitivity, and inclusion of SSNs with medical records for over 167K individuals constitutes a critical disclosure.

The group 'exitium' claims to have exfiltrated a full patient database comprising 167,303 patient records including SSNs, addresses, phone numbers, emails, ICD-10 diagnoses, medications, and pathology reports, and is offering the data for sale if ransom is not paid.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 167,303 patient records
  • 124,761 Social Security Numbers (SSN)
  • 166,402 patient addresses
  • 164,296 patient phone numbers
  • 85,318 patient email addresses
  • 1,093,863 ICD-10 diagnosis codes
  • 1,547,142 medication records
  • 186,246 pathology specimens with narrative reports
  • 49,798 patients with sensitive diagnoses (mental health, substance/alcohol use, STIs, cancer, Hepatitis C)
  • 44,861 SSNs tied to sensitive diagnosis patients
  • Records of notable individuals (politicians, businesspeople, public figures)

What the group claims

Website: gandhofcny.com Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/gastroenterology--hepatology-of-cny-pc/346091487 Data sample, whole internal data will be sold if they wouldn't pay ransom. Also Digestive Disease Center of CNY, LLC (ddcofcny.com) GI practice + AAAHC-accredited endoscopy center. Syracuse, New York, USA. Full database for sale — 167,303 patients, 124,761 SSN, 49,798 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): 49,798 patients — 44,861 with SSN. Mental health: 43,902 | Substance/Alcohol: 5,111 | STIs: 2,779 | Cancer: 2,708 | Hepatitis C: 1,906 - 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 |…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY

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 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 17, 2026; most recent post June 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 14, 2026Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY listed by exitiumon the group's public leak site
Data size
400 GB
Ransom demanded
$5

Other recent disclosures by exitium

exitium has been linked to 10 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 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY is reported in NY.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by exitium means Gastroenterology & Hepatology of CNY 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.