Was Dentist in New Britain, CT hit by ransomware?

Dentist in New Britain, CT was listed by the Dark Project 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 Dark Project ransomware group?

Dark Project 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 Dentist in New Britain, CT breach?

Dark Project published data attributed to Dentist in New Britain, CT. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Dentist in New Britain, CT

Claimed by Dark Project · listed 3 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 25, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dark Project
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

A family and cosmetic dental practice located in New Britain, Connecticut, offering general dentistry, preventive care, restorative procedures, cosmetic treatments, and emergency services. The practice accepts most insurance plans including Medicaid and Medicare.

Industry: Dental Care
Address: 446 S Main St, New Britain, CT 06051-3516, USA

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only a generic call for journalists and contact information, with no proof files, screenshots, sample data, or substantive claim of what was compromised. No evidence of data exfiltration or operational disruption provided.

Dark Project claims to have published data from this dental practice, but the leak post provides no details about what was accessed or exfiltrated. No specific data type, volume, or operational impact is disclosed.

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What the group claims

About Dentist in New Britain, CT Dentist in New Britain has spent over a decade caring for families across New Britain—pairing modern technology with the kind of warmth you don't expect from a dental office. As a result of the attack, the following were compromised: the entire customer database, consisting of just over 8,000 files, as well as a small number of records containing Social Security numbers

The leak post

captured from the group's site

If you’re a journalist, blogger, or have access to corporate networks, we’d love to connect with you. For any inquiries or if you encounter issues with our website, feel free to reach out at the email provided.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Dark Project

Dark Project is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, based on its targeting profile and operational patterns consistent with other profit-driven ransomware actors. As of the time of this writing, no major cybersecurity organizations including CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence firms have published detailed public reporting attributing Dark Project to a specific nation-state, threat actor cluster, or affiliated ransomware ecosystem, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed operation. Based on available victim telemetry, the group has claimed at least 18 known victims across a geographically diverse range of countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, and Germany representing its most frequently targeted regions. Its sectoral focus spans manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, and education, suggesting an opportunistic targeting methodology rather than a narrowly defined strategic focus, though the inclusion of healthcare and critical infrastructure-adjacent sectors such as transportation warrants continued monitoring. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation at this time, specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption implementation, extortion tactics, and tooling remain unconfirmed by open-source intelligence sources, and analysts should treat any further claims with appropriate caution pending corroborating reporting from authoritative sources. Dark Project should be considered an emerging threat actor under active observation. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2026; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 25, 2026Dentist in New Britain, CT listed by Dark Projecton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dark Project

Dark Project has been linked to 33 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 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dentist in New Britain, CT is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dark Project means Dentist in New Britain, CT 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 Dark Project'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.