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MedPeds Associates of Sarasota

listed as Medpeds · Claimed by Beast · listed 10 months ago

3 Patient
Records
$23.83
Ransom
demanded
10m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Beast
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Sep 16, 2025
Records
3 Patient
Ransom demanded
$23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MedPeds Associates of Sarasota is a primary care medical practice in Sarasota, Florida, providing internal medicine and pediatric services to adults, seniors, and children. The practice holds NCQA Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home certification and offers preventative care, chronic disease management, same-day lab services, and telehealth. Its website noted a 'Computer Downtime and Incursion' as of September 2, 2025.

Industry
Primary Care Medicine (Internal Medicine & Pediatrics)
Address
Sarasota, Florida, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a US healthcare provider subject to HIPAA; data_published status indicates confirmed exfiltration and public release of data likely containing regulated PHI/PII for patients including children, meeting the critical threshold.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have attacked MedPeds, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating exfiltration and/or publication of data from a US-based primary care healthcare provider. The ransom demand stated was $23.83, suggesting either a symbolic figure or a truncated/erroneous value.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Personal health information (PHI)
  • Patient demographic data
  • Billing and insurance records
  • Internal medicine and pediatric clinical data

What the group claims

MedPeds Associates, located in Sarasota, Florida, specializes in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with a strong emphasis on preventive care for adults, seniors, and children. The practice is recognized as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, showcasing its commitment to high-quality healthcare practices. They offer a full spectrum of medical services including same day lab services, chronic care management, and telehealth options. Their goal is to promote good health through proper nutrition, regular professional care, and the establishment of good habits.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ 2fORM Architecture specializes in innovative sustainable architecture, offering design services for residential, commercial, and interior projects. Their portfolio includes a diverse range of developments, such as multi-family housing, health care facilities, and various remodels. The company aims to serve clients in the Pacific Northwest, including individual homeowners, businesses, and institutions. With a commitment to sustainability and creativity, 2fORM Architecture enhances the built environment through thoughtful design. ](http://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/2form_architecture)[ ACMARK s r o is a company that operates in the Repair Services industry. It employs 10to19 people and has 1Mto5M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Brno, South Moravian, Czech Republic. ](http://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/acmark)[ AJU Pharm Co., Ltd. is a prominent South Korean total healthcare company founded in 1953. For over 70 years, it has evolved from a manufacturer of raw materials into a global pharmaceutical group specializing in prescription drugs, medical devices, and health supplements P U B L I S H…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Medpeds

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 16, 2025Medpeds listed by beaston the group's public leak site
Records
3 Patient
Ransom demanded
$23.83

Other recent disclosures by beast

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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, Medpeds is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Medpeds 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 beast'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.