Was HCRG Care Group hit by ransomware?

HCRG Care Group was listed by the Medusa ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Medusa ransomware group?

Medusa 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 HCRG Care Group breach?

Medusa published data attributed to HCRG Care Group (~2.275 TB), around 5.000 employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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HCRG Care Group

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

2.275 TB

Data size

5.000 employees records

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 20, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 20, 2025
Data size: 2.275 TB
Records: 5.000 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HCRG Care Group is a United Kingdom-based healthcare provider operating physician clinics and specialty clinics. Founded in 2006 with approximately 5,000 employees and a corporate office in Runcorn, Cheshire.

Industry: Healthcare Services
Address: The Heath Business and Technical Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 4QX, United Kingdom
Employees: 5000
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Healthcare sector with confirmed exfiltration of 2.275 TB of data (likely including PII and protected health information); data published and downloadable by threat actor.

Medusa claims to have exfiltrated 2.275 TB of data from HCRG Care Group. The group provides a direct download link to the stolen dataset, indicating confirmed data exfiltration rather than encryption-only attack.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

patient records
healthcare data
business documents

What the group claims

HCRG Care Group (founded in 2006) is a healthcare company that provides healthcare services such as physician clinics and specialty clinics. HCRG Care corporate office is located in The Heath Business and Technical Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 4QX, United Kingdom and has 5,000 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 2.275 Tb Direct file tree download link due to big file size: https://www.sendspace.com/file/8i7cca

Sources

Leak posthttp://xfv4jzckytb4g3ckwemcny3ihv4i5p4lqzdpi624cxisu35my5fwi5qd.onion/detail?id=6376f1bfa1f41e14654c85add50a4969

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 20, 2025HCRG Care Group listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 2.275 TB
Records: 5.000 employees

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, HCRG Care Group is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means HCRG Care Group 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 Medusa'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.