Was Center for Life Resources ECI hit by ransomware?

Center for Life Resources ECI was listed by the sinobi 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 sinobi ransomware group?

sinobi 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 Center for Life Resources ECI breach?

sinobi published data attributed to Center for Life Resources ECI. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Center for Life Resources ECI

Claimed by Sinobi · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 22, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sinobi
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Dec 22, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Center for Life Resources ECI is a non-profit behavioral health organization serving Central Texas that provides adult and children's mental health support, substance use services, and care for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The organization operates a 24-hour crisis intervention hotline and works in partnership with local law enforcement and hospitals. It serves multiple counties across the region from several locations.

Industry: Mental Health & Developmental Disability Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare organization handling highly sensitive regulated data including mental health records, substance use treatment records, and IDD client data — all categories protected under HIPAA. Data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of what is likely protected health information (PHI) at scale.

The group Sinobi has disclosed data claimed to have been exfiltrated from Center for Life Resources ECI, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, suggesting sensitive organizational or client data has been released.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Mental health patient records
Substance use treatment records
Intellectual and Developmental Disability client records
Crisis intervention case files
Personally identifiable information (PII)

What the group claims

Center for Life Resources is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals in Central Texas by providing a range of services including adult and children's mental health support, substance use services, and assistance for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The organization operates a 24-hour crisis intervention hotline and collaborates with local law enforcement and hospitals to ensure comprehensive care. Their intended clients include individuals facing mental health challenges, families in need of support, and those requiring crisis intervention. With multiple locations across several counties, they aim to serve the diverse needs of their community.

Sources

Leak posthttp://sinobi6rlec6f2bgn6rd72xo7hvds4a5ajiu2if4oub2sut7fg3gomqd.onion/leaks/6949c31488b6823fa2f54850

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About sinobi

Based on the limited publicly available information, Sinobi appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in July 2025, with financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of 268 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, and there is no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly selective operations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy, with a focus on manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and technology sectors, suggesting they may exploit common vulnerabilities across these industries rather than deploying sophisticated, sector-specific attack vectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Sinobi have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence timeline and lack of extensive public documentation, the group's current operational status and long-term trajectory remain unclear, though the substantial victim count suggests continued activity as of the last available reporting period. The group has been linked to 274 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 5, 2025; most recent post May 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 22, 2025Center for Life Resources ECI listed by sinobion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by sinobi

sinobi has been linked to 274 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, Center for Life Resources ECI is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by sinobi means Center for Life Resources ECI 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 sinobi'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.