Was Elko Dental Specialists hit by ransomware?

Elko Dental Specialists was listed by the CRPxO 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 CRPxO ransomware group?

CRPxO 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 Elko Dental Specialists breach?

CRPxO published data attributed to Elko Dental Specialists. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Elko Dental Specialists

Claimed by CRPxO · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: CRPxO
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Elko Dental Specialists is a multi-specialty dental practice based in Elko, Nevada, offering pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, and oral surgery services. The practice serves patients across Northern Nevada including Elko, Spring Creek, Carlin, Battle Mountain, and Wells.

Industry: Dental Practice - Multi-Specialty
Address: 1760 Browning Way, Elko, NV 89801

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 7.8 GB from a healthcare provider, which typically contains sensitive PII and protected health information (PHI) at scale. Data has been published, indicating operational loss of patient confidentiality.

CRPxO claims to have exfiltrated 7.8 GB of data from Elko Dental Specialists. The group has published the data; no details on operational encryption or ransom demand are provided.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records
Personal identifiable information
Medical/dental histories
Contact information
Insurance information

What the group claims

Sector: Healthcare / Dental | Data leaked: 7.8 GB

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About CRPxO

CRPxO is a ransomware group first observed in July 2026 with a primary financial motivation, having claimed six known victims to date with a notable focus on the healthcare sector across the United States and China. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public footprint, comprehensive technical attribution and operational details have not yet been documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources. Based on available victimology data, the group demonstrates a deliberate targeting pattern favoring healthcare organizations in the US and CN, a sector frequently selected for its sensitivity to operational disruption and willingness to pay ransoms to restore critical services. No confirmed country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific tooling, or extortion methodology has been publicly attributed to CRPxO at this time, and the group's infrastructure, encryption methods, and initial access vectors remain uncharacterized in open-source reporting. With only six known victims and a short operational history, CRPxO should be considered an emerging and actively monitored threat, though its current operational status and potential for escalation or rebranding cannot be confirmed based on publicly available intelligence. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 9, 2026; most recent post July 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 27, 2026Elko Dental Specialists listed by CRPxOon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by CRPxO

CRPxO has been linked to 26 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 2,603 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Elko Dental Specialists is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by CRPxO means Elko Dental Specialists 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 CRPxO'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.