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Greater Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Associates (GPOA)

listed as Pittsburgh’s Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons · Claimed by Donutleaks · listed 2 years ago

26m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 17, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Donutleaks
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
May 17, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Greater Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Associates (GPOA) is an orthopaedic surgery practice operating in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area with seven offices across the Greater Pittsburgh region (Brackenridge, Cranberry Township, Moon Township, Sewickley, Shadyside, South Side, and others). They provide board-certified orthopaedic surgical care specializing in areas including joint replacement, spine surgery, sports medicine, and hand/upper extremity surgery.

Industry
Healthcare - Orthopaedic Surgery

Attack summary

Severity: high — Healthcare provider with multiple office locations; breach likely involves PHI (patient medical records, contact information) from orthopaedic patient population. No proof files publicly shown in available post excerpt, but sector sensitivity and breach confirmation warrant high severity.

Donutleaks claims to have compromised Pittsburgh's Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons (GPOA) and states the organization failed to protect client data. The post indicates data exfiltration occurred but provides no specific details on what data was taken or the scope of the breach.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient records
  • Protected health information (PHI)

What the group claims

Hello everyone! We got some not very smart people who was compromise and do not want to protect their clients data. Today here medical company from Pittsburgh(USA):"Pittsburgh’s Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons" [must be not so trusted as you thought, but okay] Web site: https://www.gpoa.com/ "Pittsburgh’…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donutleaks

Donutleaks is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a pattern of targeting critical infrastructure and business sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, with limited information available from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Based on the limited public documentation available, the group has demonstrated a preference for attacking healthcare, technology, manufacturing, business services, and telecommunications sectors, with their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities not extensively detailed in current threat intelligence reporting. Donutleaks has been associated with approximately 42 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Italy, Iran, and Spain, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom demands have not been widely reported by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies. The current operational status of Donutleaks remains unclear due to limited public threat intelligence coverage of this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 42 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2022; most recent post July 24, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 17, 2024Pittsburgh’s Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons listed by Donutleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Donutleaks

Donutleaks has been linked to 42 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, Pittsburgh’s Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donutleaks means Pittsburgh’s Trusted Orthopaedic Surgeons 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 Donutleaks'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.