Was Fertility North hit by ransomware?

Fertility North was listed by the Trigona ransomware operation (Australia), 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 Trigona ransomware group?

Trigona 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 Fertility North breach?

Trigona published data attributed to Fertility North. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Fertility North

Claimed by Trigona · listed 2 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 18, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Trigona
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 18, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fertility North is a patient-centred IVF and fertility clinic in Perth, Western Australia, established in 2002. With over 40 dedicated staff including specialist fertility doctors, scientists, nurses, and counsellors, the clinic provides comprehensive assisted reproductive technology services and has been serving patients for more than 20 years.

Industry: Fertility & Assisted Reproductive Medicine
Address: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Employees: 40-50
Founded: 2002

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Fertility clinic victim with confirmed data publication by ransomware group. Likely exposure of sensitive health information (fertility treatments, genetic data, PII) at scale affecting 20+ years of patient records. Healthcare data exfiltration involving reproductive medicine is highly sensitive and regulated.

Trigona claims to have attacked Fertility North and exfiltrated data. The group published the company description in their leak post, indicating data exposure, though specific details of compromised data categories are not explicitly stated in the provided excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Fertility treatment histories
Genetic screening data
Personal identification documents
Contact information
Financial/billing records

What the group claims

Fertility North, a leading fertility clinic, boasts a cohesive, multidisciplinary team of approximately 50 highly skilled and qualified staff. The collaborative approach of Fertility Doctors, Fertility Nurses, and Scientists, supported by Administration and Support staff, ensures that patients benefit from a wealth of combined knowledge and skill. Fertility North offers a comprehensive range of treatment options from its custom-designed, state-of-the-art facilities, strategically located away from the hustle and bustle of Perth's inner suburbs. The clinic's core values are deeply rooted in providing individualized care and guidance to patients, reflecting kindness, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.

Sources

Victim sitefertilitynorth.com.au
Leak posthttp://krsbhaxbki6jr4zvwblvkaqzjkircj7cxf46qt3na5o5sj2hpikbupqd.onion/leak/d617da87

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Trigona

Trigona is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service operation. Trigona employs double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with data exfiltration and threats to publish stolen information on leak sites, though specific details about their initial access vectors and encryption methods have not been extensively documented by major security researchers. The group has claimed 49 victims as of current reporting, with their attacks concentrated in the United States, Australia, Mexico, France, and Indonesia, primarily targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and finance sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023, there are no widely reported major campaigns or significant law enforcement actions documented by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Trigona appears to remain active as of current intelligence assessments, though the limited public documentation reflects their relatively recent entry into the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 17, 2023; most recent post March 30, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 18, 2024Fertility North listed by Trigonaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Trigona

Trigona has been linked to 49 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, Fertility North is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Trigona means Fertility North 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Trigona'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.