Was Family Health center hit by ransomware?

Family Health center was listed by the alphv 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 alphv ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Family Health center breach?

alphv published data attributed to Family Health center. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Family Health center

Claimed by Alphv · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 23, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Alphv
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 23, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Family Health Center is a Michigan-based Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1971 in Kalamazoo, operating three fixed locations plus mobile health and dental units. The organization serves approximately 165,000 patient visits annually and offers comprehensive health services including adult medicine, pediatrics, dental care, behavioral medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, and substance use disorder treatment.

Industry: Healthcare - Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
Address: Corner of Paterson and Burdick Streets, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
Founded: 1971

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Healthcare provider with 165,000 annual patient visits; confirmed data exfiltration of patient medical records and PII by ALPHV; FQHC status indicates service to vulnerable/underserved populations; HIPAA-regulated entity with significant exposure of protected health information.

ALPHV claims to have exfiltrated data from Family Health Center. The group has published the attack on their leak site, indicating data exfiltration occurred, though specific data types and operational impact are not detailed in the post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient health records
Personal identifiable information (PII)
Medical histories
Pharmacy records

What the group claims

Since Moses L. Walker and his colleagues opened the doors for the first time in 1971, Family Health Center (FHC) has been serving community members who are in need of quality and compassionate healthcare. From humble beginnings in a converted trailer to the current state-of-the-art $10 million facility on the same plot of land at the corner of Paterson and Burdick Streets, FHC has become the county’s only Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). FHC has also been accredited as a community-based health center by the National Committee for Quality Assurance for over a decade. What began as a group of dedicated community advocates, volunteer doctors, nurses and assistants is now, more than 53 years later, one of Michigan’s most highly recognized FQHCs. Our team offers comprehensive health services at three locations, with an additional set of mobile health and dental units. Our staff administers approximately 165,000 patient visits annually as part of our commitment to serve the community members of Kalamazoo. Our leadership and staff at FHC are also passionate about community engagement. Our annual events include the Dr. Lisandra Soto Dental Day of Caring and Back to School Bash. FHC also provides Medical Assistant training to community members interested in pursuing this career path. One of the hallmarks of FHC is our compassionate staff. We are grateful to all our team members who remain dedicated to honoring Mr. Walker’s legacy and mission of keeping our community members healthy and strong. As we continue our mission to provide quality health care to everyone, we remember our promise to treat our patients with dignity and respect.

Sources

Victim sitefhckzoo.com
Leak posthttp://alphvuzxyxv6ylumd2ngp46xzq3pw6zflomrghvxeuks6kklberrbmyd.onion/eec048cb-5ced-4ed4-8763-f2eb39dd042d

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About alphv

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and rapidly established itself as one of the most sophisticated and prolific ransomware operations observed by researchers at Mandiant, CISA, and the FBI. The group is suspected to have Russian-speaking origins and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, with well-documented links to former affiliates of the DarkSide and BlackMatter ransomware operations, suggesting a continuity of personnel and tradecraft across these successive rebrand events. ALPHV is technically distinguished by its use of Rust-based ransomware — an uncommon choice at the time of its emergence — which enabled cross-platform attacks against Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments; the group employs multiple initial access vectors including compromised credentials, phishing, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and routinely conducts double and triple extortion by exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption and threatening victims with public disclosure on their dedicated leak site, with some cases involving additional pressure through direct contact with victim customers and regulators. ALPHV has claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks against MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Reddit, and healthcare provider Change Healthcare — the latter representing one of the most disruptive cyberattacks on the U.S. healthcare sector on record, with a reported ransom payment of approximately $22 million — and has accumulated over 731 known victims across the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular concentration in business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and financial services sectors. In December 2023, the FBI and international partners conducted a disruption operation against ALPHV's infrastructure and released a decryption tool for victims; however, the group subsequently attempted to rebrand and continued operations before an apparent final collapse in March 2024, following an alleged exit scam against affiliates after the Change Healthcare ransom payment, with law enforcement officially attributing the group's infrastructure seizure shortly thereafter. The group has been linked to 731 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 23, 2024Family Health center listed by alphvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by alphv

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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, Family Health center is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by alphv means Family Health center 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 alphv'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.