Was Southwest CARE Center hit by ransomware?

Southwest CARE Center was listed by the Medusa 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 Medusa ransomware group?

Medusa 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 Southwest CARE Center breach?

Medusa published data attributed to Southwest CARE Center (~143.9 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Southwest CARE Center

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

143.9 GB

Data size

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 6, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 6, 2025
Data size: 143.9 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Southwest CARE Center is a New Mexico-based healthcare provider founded in 1996, specializing in HIV and Hepatitis C treatment with additional primary care, behavioral health, and pharmacy services. Operating locations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, it serves as a federally qualified health center offering sliding-scale fees regardless of ability to pay.

Industry: Healthcare - HIV/Hepatitis C Treatment & Primary Care
Address: 901 W Alameda Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Large-scale exfiltration (143.9 GB) of confirmed sensitive healthcare data including HIV/Hepatitis C patient records, which constitutes regulated protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA. Published disclosure of healthcare PII at significant organizational scale.

Medusa ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 143.9 GB of data from Southwest CARE Center. The group has published the data, indicating confirmed data breach disclosure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

patient medical records
HIV treatment information
Hepatitis C patient data
clinical research records
behavioral health records
pharmacy records
personally identifiable information

What the group claims

Founded in 1996, Southwest CARE Center (SCC) is well known as a center of excellence for the care and treatment of people living with HIV in New Mexico. SCC is the largest provider of treatment for people living with Hepatitis C in northern New Mexico. SCC is also the largest clinical research site in New Mexico for studies of new treatments for both HIV and Hepatitis C. In September of 2015 SCC opened its doors in Albuquerque providing the same high standard of HIV care SCC is known for. Southwest CARE Center's focus is to provide a compassionate, patient-centered environment where everyone can feel comfortable and respected while receiving the highest quality health care available. company is headquartered in 901 W Alameda Street Santa Fe, NM 87501. The total amount of data leakage is 143.9 GB

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 6, 2025Southwest CARE Center listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 143.9 GB

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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, Southwest CARE Center is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Southwest CARE Center 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 Medusa'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.