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Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists

listed as bienvilleortho.com · Claimed by Abyss · listed 3 years ago

147 GB
Data size
40m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 27, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Mar 27, 2023
Data size
147 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists is a multi-location orthopaedic practice serving South Mississippi and South Alabama, with clinics in Gautier, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Hurley, and Grand Bay. The practice employs 21 orthopaedic specialists offering subspecialty care across a broad range of musculoskeletal conditions, including spine, joint replacement, sports medicine, podiatry, and pain management. They also operate MRI centers and a surgery center.

Industry
Orthopaedic & Musculoskeletal Healthcare
Address
Multiple locations across South Mississippi including Gautier, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, and Hurley, MS, plus Grand Bay, Alabama
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 147 GB of data from a multi-location orthopaedic practice has been published, almost certainly containing regulated protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA at scale, including patient records, medical imaging, and billing/insurance data.

The Abyss ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 147 GB of uncompressed data from Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists and has published the data. No ransom amount was stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Medical imaging data (MRI/PACS)
  • Billing and insurance information
  • Personal identifiable information (PII)
  • Employee/staff records
  • Workers' compensation records
  • Referral and physician records

What the group claims

bienvilleortho.com 147Gb uncompressed data

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 27, 2023bienvilleortho.com listed by Abysson the group's public leak site
Data size
147 GB

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, bienvilleortho.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Abyss means bienvilleortho.com 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 Abyss'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.