Was Saint Mary's Home hit by ransomware?

Saint Mary's Home was listed by the worldleaks 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 worldleaks ransomware group?

worldleaks 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 Saint Mary's Home breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Saint Mary's Home. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Saint Mary's Home of Erie

listed as Saint Mary's Home · Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 10 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 3, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Oct 3, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Saint Mary's Home of Erie is a non-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community located on a 34-acre campus in Erie, Pennsylvania, serving primarily seniors and their families. The organization offers a range of services including independent living, residential and personal care, skilled nursing, Alzheimer's and memory care, rehabilitation services, respite care, and home care. It is a sponsored ministry of The Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern Pennsylvania.

Industry: Senior Care & Continuing Care Retirement Community
Address: 4855 West Ridge Road, Erie, PA 16506-1213

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare organization (skilled nursing, memory care, rehabilitation) subject to HIPAA; the organization itself has published a formal data privacy event notice confirming a breach affecting individuals' sensitive information, indicating likely exfiltration of regulated medical and personal data (PII at scale, medical records).

The worldleaks group claims to have published data belonging to Saint Mary's Home of Erie; the organization itself has separately issued a notice of a data privacy event, confirming that sensitive information related to certain individuals may have been compromised. The nature of the exfiltrated data has not been fully detailed in the leak post, but the healthcare context strongly implies regulated personal and medical information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Resident personal information
Medical/health records
Employee records
Financial information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Saint Mary's Home is a non-profit organization that provides specialized care for children and young adults with severe disabilities. They cater to individuals from birth to 21 years old, delivering comprehensive services including medical care, physical therapy, education and recreational activities. Their mission revolves around improving the quality of life for these youths, helping them reach their full potential. Based in Norfolk, Virginia, Saint Mary's Home is also committed to family engagement in the care process.

Sources

Victim sitewww.stmaryshome.org
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/6593915029

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 3, 2025Saint Mary's Home listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Saint Mary's Home is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Saint Mary's Home 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 worldleaks'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.