Was Berlin, Germany hit by ransomware?

Berlin, Germany was listed by the Rhysida ransomware operation (Germany), 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 Rhysida ransomware group?

Rhysida 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 Berlin, Germany breach?

Rhysida published data attributed to Berlin, Germany. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Berlin, Germany

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 28, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Rhysida
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Listed on leak site: Aug 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A clinic or medical practice operating in Berlin, Germany with a large patient base and comprehensive electronic health records system spanning decades of operations.

Industry: Healthcare & Medical Services
Address: Berlin, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale protected health information (PHI), personal identification data (SSNs, passports), and financial records from a healthcare provider. The disclosure of 160,870+ patient records with unencrypted EHR data triggers GDPR and medical privacy regulations.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated 9,056,196 files (3.28 TB) from the clinic's databases, including patient records, diagnoses, EHR scans, and personal identification data, as well as financial and employment records. The group is soliciting bids on the stolen data with a 7-day deadline.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records (160,870 patients)
Medical diagnoses (4.18 million records)
Electronic health records (7.6 million unencrypted scans)
Social Security numbers
Passport data
Personal identification documents
Financial statements
Employee salaries
Tax records

What the group claims

Berlin, Germany Total capacity 5.79 TBArchive scale: ~1.44 million files scanned; by category � Maps/Geo 124,823, Legal/complaints 77,939, Financial 55,553, Contracts 46,522, HR 27,299,Government supervisory 13,142, Confidential 11,777, Infrastructure 8,110, Passwords 5,941, Health 2,738, Contacts 2,287.PII leak: 16,389 e-mails, 11,963 phone numbers, 12,076 individuals, 148 IBANs.Credentials in plaintext: Geb�udeAtlas, the ePayment PAYONE payment database, personal 'password safes' (danz, kramell � Z_ADMIN database accounts, franssen), leadership credentials.Disciplinary proceedings: the ANDERSON case (432 files, 2025�2026, lawsuit at VG Berlin administrative court), the politically motivated misconduct case involving the LKA Staatsschutz (state security police), the forestry cases BLAUTH/M�LLER/FIELICKE.State secrets: Bundesrat committee protocols with declassification correspondence, Geheimschutz (classified-material handling) data.Passports/IDs (recent, from personnel files and GI-Vertraulich).KRITIS: vulnerability analyses of Berlin's water supply.Mass personal data: Personalakten (personnel files) >5,000, Convotis payroll, OWi (administrative-offence) files >5,000, Postbuch SQL dumps 2020�2026, PST archives, leadership private data (IBANs, ID cards, Behrendt's bank card).NDA: 3,226 documentsLegal violation map (GDPR Art. 32/9/33, VSA/StGB upon VS classification confirmation, BSIG/KRITIS) More

The leak post

captured from the group's site

9,056,196 files3.28 TBLarge SQL databases containing the clinic's entire lifetime of information.Major databases:160,870 patients4.18 million diagnoses7.6 million unencrypted EHR scansSSN, passports, and other personal data.Financial statements, salaries, taxes.Dear customers, please submit your requests�there are plenty of files here that can be monetized.
With just 7 days on the clock, seize the opportunity to bid on exclusive, unique, and impressive data. Open your wallets and be ready to buy exclusive data. We sell only to one hand, no reselling, you will be the only owner!
9,056,196 files3.28 TBLarge SQL databases containing the clinic's entire lifetime of information.Major databases:160,870 patients4.18 million diagnoses7.6 million unencrypted EHR scansSSN, passports, and other personal data.Financial statements, salaries, taxes.Dear customers, please submit your requests�there are plenty of files here that can be monetized.

Sources

Leak posthttp://rhysidafohrhyy2aszi7bm32tnjat5xri65fopcxkdfxhi4tidsg7cad.onion/archive.php?company=265

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 299 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post August 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 28, 2026Berlin, Germany listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

Geographically, Berlin, Germany is reported in Germany, a country with 393 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Berlin, Germany 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Rhysida'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.