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Maxwell Group

listed as maxwell-group.com · Claimed by BrainCipher · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
BrainCipher
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Listed on leak site
Sep 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Maxwell Group develops, owns, and manages luxury retirement communities and senior living care entities across seven U.S. states (Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina). Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company operates over 3,700 residential units and employs approximately 3,500 staff across development, operations, marketing, and care services.

Industry
Senior Living & Luxury Retirement Communities
Address
3530 Toringdon Way, Suite 204, Charlotte, North Carolina 28277, USA
Employees
3500
Founded
1989

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated healthcare data (resident PHI at scale, medical records, billing information) combined with sensitive financial records, banking credentials, and employee personal data. Healthcare records are federally protected (HIPAA); breach affecting 3,700+ residents constitutes critical exposure.

BrainCipher claims to have exfiltrated 115 GB of data comprising 150,000 files and documents. The leaked data includes complete corporate financial records, banking credentials, tax documents, resident medical records (PHI including Medicaid/Medicare billing and therapy notes), employee personal documents, M&A strategy information, and state licenses across multiple operating jurisdictions.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate financial statements and forecasts
  • Bank account details and reconciliations
  • Corporate credit cards
  • Tax returns and W-2 forms
  • Resident PHI (medical records, therapy notes, incident reports)
  • Medicaid/Medicare billing records
  • Employee personal documents
  • M&A transaction details and valuations
  • Debt facility agreements
  • State licenses and cost reports

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A I don't have reliable, verified information about a specific company operating at "maxwell-group.com." There are multiple businesses that use variations of "Maxwell Group" as a name across different industries and countries, and without access to current, verifiable data tied specifically to this domain, I cannot provide accurate details about its operations, industry, or country without risking providing false information.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
We have over 115 GB of data — 150k files and documents containing: Complete corporate financial statements, budgets, and forecasts; Bank accounts and reconciliations (Truist); corporate CC's; Taxes and payroll (990s, W-2, tax documents, commissions); Residents PHI: Medicaid/Medicare billing, medical records, therapy notes, incident reports with nurse's notes; Employees personal documents; Strategic M&A information (transactions, valuations, due diligence); Debt facility agreements with investors; State licenses and Cost Reports across multiple states; If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected]
⏳ Deadline: October 7, 2026 at 13:04

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Braincipher

Braincipher is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and targeting organizations primarily across North America and Europe. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing, likely operating as an independent entity rather than through established ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, though their victim distribution across 44 confirmed targets spanning business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors indicates a generalist approach to target selection rather than sector-specific expertise. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly documented against this group by reputable sources, suggesting either a relatively low-impact operational scale or insufficient intelligence collection on their activities. As of current reporting, the group's operational status remains unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 90 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 1, 2024; most recent post September 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: brain cipher.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 29, 2026maxwell-group.com listed by Braincipher on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Braincipher

Braincipher has been linked to 90 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Braincipher dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, maxwell-group.com is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Braincipher means maxwell-group.com 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Braincipher'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.