Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 43 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 24, 2026Insight Hospital & Medical Center Chicago listed by Termiteon 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, Insight Hospital & Medical Center Chicago 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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Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Chicago

listed as Insight Hospital & Medical Center Chicago · Claimed by Termite · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 24, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, founded in 1852, is a member of Trinity Health and operates as a teaching hospital headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the oldest hospitals in Chicago, providing a broad range of inpatient and outpatient medical services to the South Side Chicago community. The facility listed at insightchicago.com appears to be operating under the Insight Hospital & Medical Center brand at the same location following Mercy Hospital's closure/transition.

Industry: Acute Care Hospital & Medical Services
Address: 2525 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60616
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1852

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed data publication by a ransomware group targeting a hospital; healthcare environments inherently involve regulated patient data (HIPAA-protected PHI/PII at scale), making any confirmed exfiltration and publication a critical severity event.

The Termite ransomware group claims to have attacked the hospital and published data, asserting exfiltration of organizational data; the leak post describes the institution as a Trinity Health teaching hospital founded in 1852. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient health records
Personal identifiable information (PII)
Employee records
Financial records
Hospital administrative documents

What the group claims

Founded in 1852 Mercy Hospital &amp; Medical Center is a member of Trinity Health. They are a teaching hospital headquartered out of Chicago, Illinois

Sources

Victim siteinsightchicago.com
Leak posthttp://termiteuslbumdge2zmfmfcsrvmvsfe4gvyudc5j6cdnisnhtftvokid.onion/post/69792ffffeb604ea6ee573d8

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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