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Indigo ENT Group

listed as www.indigoent.ca · Claimed by Qiulong · listed 2 years ago

8474 Email
Records
25m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 30, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Qiulong
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 30, 2024
Records
8474 Email

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Indigo ENT Group is a medical practice in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, specializing in ear, nose, and throat (otolaryngology) care for both adult and pediatric patients. Founded in 2017, the group operates five otolaryngologists across three locations (Coquitlam, Burnaby, New Westminster) providing clinical and surgical ENT services.

Industry
Healthcare Services - Otolaryngology (ENT Specialists)
Address
101-2963 Glen Dr., Coquitlam, BC V3B 2P7, Canada (primary); additional offices in Burnaby and New Westminster
Employees
51-200
Founded
2017

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of PHI and PII at scale from a healthcare provider serving both adults and children. Patient medical records and protected health information fall under regulated categories (PIPEDA in Canada, potentially HIPAA-equivalent protections). Qiulong explicitly claims theft of 'thousands' of patient records.

Qiulong claims to have infiltrated Indigo ENT's network over recent weeks and exfiltrated thousands of patient personal, confidential, PHI (Protected Health Information), and PII records. The post indicates data has been stolen but provides limited detail on specific data types or proof samples.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient personal information
  • Protected Health Information (PHI)
  • Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
  • Patient medical records
  • Patient contact information

What the group claims

Indigo ENT Group is a company that operates in the Hospital & Health Care industry. The company is headquartered in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/indigo-ent-group/448092524 Office Main Phone: 604-941-8474 Email: [email protected] Doctors: Dr. Dewji, Dr. Gooi, Dr. Mah In the past few weeks, our group has been operating within the network of Indigo EST, stealing thousands of personal, confidential, and PHI, & PII data of patients. This is the first warning. Samples:

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Qiulong

Qiulong is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and limited observed activities. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely unknown due to their recent emergence and relatively small operational footprint, with no publicly documented evidence from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their geographical base or connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Limited public reporting suggests the group employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and whether they engage in data exfiltration or double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence providers. Their operations have remained relatively low-profile compared to established ransomware families, with approximately eight known victims primarily concentrated in Brazil and Canada, showing a particular focus on healthcare and business services sectors. The group appears to remain active as of late 2024, though their limited operational scope and recent emergence mean they have not yet attracted significant law enforcement attention or disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post June 24, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 30, 2024www.indigoent.ca listed by Qiulongon the group's public leak site
Records
8474 Email

Other recent disclosures by Qiulong

Qiulong has been linked to 8 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Qiulong dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.indigoent.ca is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qiulong means www.indigoent.ca 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Qiulong'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.