Was American Associated Pharmacies hit by ransomware?

American Associated Pharmacies was listed by the Embargo ransomware operation (United States), 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 Embargo ransomware group?

Embargo 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 American Associated Pharmacies breach?

Embargo published data attributed to American Associated Pharmacies (~1.469 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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American Associated Pharmacies

Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

1.469 TB

Data size

20m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 13, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Nov 13, 2024
Data size: 1.469 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is a member-owned cooperative of over 2,000 independent pharmacies providing negotiated pricing, managed-care contracts, and specialty pharmacy services through subsidiaries including Associated Pharmacies, Inc., Arete Pharmacy Network, and AllyScripts.

Industry: Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Distribution
Employees: 2000+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 1.469 TB from healthcare/pharmacy cooperative affecting 2,000+ member pharmacies; likely includes patient/PII data at significant scale; ransom payment evidence suggests operational compromise.

Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated 1.469 TB of data from AAP. The group states AAP paid 1.3 million dollars for decryption and owes another 1.3 million for the stolen data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

pharmacy operational records
member pharmacy data
managed-care contracts
financial records
customer/patient information

What the group claims

American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is a member-owned cooperative of over 2,000 independent pharmacies working together as a cohesive network. AAP in partnership with its subsidiaries, Associated Pharmacies, Inc. (API), Arete Pharmacy Network, and AllyScripts, provides the tools and resources needed for members to improve their bottom line and differentiate themselves from competitors. AAP members not only receive savings on brand prescriptions, generic prescriptions and OTC products through the API warehouse and their negotiated prime vendor agreement, but they also receive negotiated competitive managed-care contracts through the Arete Pharmacy Network. In addition to offering solutions such as API and Arete Pharmacy Network, AAP provides members access to a full-service specialty pharmacy, AllyScripts, that allows pharmacies to retain their patients and compete in the growing specialty segment without the costly investment. AAP is able to provide its members with the support and customized solutions they need to succeed in the marketplace. - It seems AAP does not care about their data. AAP has paid 1.3 million for decrypt and owe another 1.3 million for 1.469 TB of their data.

Sources

Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion/#/post/40

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Embargo

Embargo is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across multiple sectors. The group has been observed targeting victims predominantly in the United States, Singapore, India, and France, with particular emphasis on technology, healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial sectors. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details about their country of origin, operational structure, and technical methodologies remain largely unconfirmed by established security research organizations. With 37 known victims identified since their emergence, Embargo appears to follow established ransomware operational patterns typical of financially-motivated cybercriminal groups, though comprehensive analysis of their attack vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics has not yet been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare and financial services aligns with broader ransomware trends observed throughout 2024, though specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current observations, Embargo appears to remain active, though the limited timeframe since their emergence and sparse public documentation makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post June 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 13, 2024American Associated Pharmacies listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.469 TB

Other recent disclosures by Embargo

Embargo has been linked to 40 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Embargo dossier →

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

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means American Associated Pharmacies 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 Embargo'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.