Disclosure context

About Daixin

Daixin is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly documented sources, though their targeting patterns suggest sophisticated operational capabilities and potential access to healthcare sector vulnerabilities. Daixin employs typical ransomware attack methodologies including data exfiltration prior to encryption, implementing double extortion tactics to pressure victims into payment by threatening to release stolen sensitive information alongside system encryption. The group has demonstrated a pronounced targeting preference for healthcare organizations, which represents a significant portion of their documented victims, alongside government entities and financial services organizations. Their geographic focus centers heavily on the United States while also targeting victims across Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Canada, indicating either broad operational reach or collaboration with regional affiliates. With 21 documented victims since their emergence, Daixin represents a relatively newer but active threat actor in the ransomware landscape. Current intelligence suggests the group remains operationally active as of recent assessments, continuing to pose threats to critical infrastructure sectors, particularly healthcare organizations that may be viewed as high-value targets due to the sensitive nature of their data and operational dependencies. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 3, 2022; most recent post September 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 9, 2023Columbus Regional Healthcare System listed by Daixinon 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, Columbus Regional Healthcare System 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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Columbus Regional Healthcare System

Claimed by Daixin · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 9, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Daixin
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jun 9, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Columbus Regional Healthcare System (CRHS) is a hospital-based healthcare organization located in Whiteville, North Carolina, serving Southeastern North Carolina. It operates one of the highest-volume robotic surgical programs in the region and provides a comprehensive continuum of care through hospital-owned practices spanning Primary Care, Pediatrics, Cancer Care, Orthopedics, Urology, OB/GYN, Pain Management, and Imaging. The organization is expanding with a new 68,000-square-foot medical office building in Leland, NC.

Industry: Regional Healthcare System & Hospital Services
Address: 500 Jefferson St, Whiteville, NC 28472

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Daixin is a ransomware group known to target healthcare and exfiltrate protected health information (PHI) and PII at scale. The victim is a regional hospital system with patient portals, surgical programs, and broad clinical services. The disclosure status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and publication of regulated healthcare data, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Daixin ransomware group claims to have attacked Columbus Regional Healthcare System and has published data from the organization, as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status. The nature of the exfiltrated data has not been detailed in the truncated leak post, but the target is a healthcare provider handling sensitive patient information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records
Medical/clinical data
Healthcare operational data
Employee/HR data

What the group claims

Columbus Regional Healthcare System has one of the highest volume and most experienced robotic surgical programs in Southeastern North Carolina.

Sources

Victim sitecrhealthcare.org/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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