Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 6, 2023Consulate Health Care listed by hiveon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Consulate Health Care is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Consulate Health Care

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 6, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 6, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Consulate Health Care is a leading provider of senior healthcare services specializing in post-acute care, including short-term rehabilitation, transitional care, and Alzheimer's and dementia care. The company originated in Cheswick, PA and has expanded to operate across 5 states. It serves patients in long-term and transitional care settings with a mission centered on patient-focused, community-based care.

Industry: Senior & Post-Acute Healthcare Services
Address: Cheswick, PA, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Consulate Health Care operates across 5 states serving vulnerable senior patients; data published by Hive almost certainly includes regulated medical records (HIPAA-covered PHI/PII) for a large population of patients, constituting confirmed exfiltration of sensitive regulated healthcare data at scale.

The Hive ransomware group claimed an attack on Consulate Health Care and published data (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company and patient-related data from a multi-state senior healthcare provider.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient health records
Alzheimer's and dementia care patient data
Rehabilitation and transitional care records
Employee records
Business operational data

What the group claims

Consulate Health Care is a leading provider of senior healthcare services, specializing in post-acute care. We offer services ranging from comprehensive short-term rehabilitation and transitional care to Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Consulate Health Care began as a small provider in Cheswick, PA with a strong focus on patient needs. We haven’t waivered from that focus, which has strengthened our family and allows us to sustain jobs in many communities, create rigorous systems of care and deploy technology that makes it easier to understand patient needs. Even as we’ve grown to provide services across 5 states, it’s the little things we do while fulfilling our mission statement of "Providing Service with Our Hearts and Hands" that really makes the difference. From visiting with our patients while they eat, to pulling up the sheets to just the right height, our employees care for patients like family, not because it’s their job, but because it’s their calling.

Sources

Victim siteconsulatehc.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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