Was usuhs.edu hit by ransomware?

usuhs.edu was listed by the lockbit3 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 lockbit3 ransomware group?

lockbit3 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 usuhs.edu breach?

lockbit3 published data attributed to usuhs.edu. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

listed as usuhs.edu · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 1 year ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 2, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Feb 2, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is a federal health science university and professional school that trains military medical officers across the U.S. Armed Forces and Public Health Service. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, it operates four schools: School of Medicine, Graduate School of Nursing, Postgraduate Dental College, and College of Allied Health Sciences, serving active-duty military health professions education and biomedical research.

Industry: Military Medical Education & Research
Address: 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, United States
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: high — USU is a U.S. federal government institution responsible for training military medical personnel. A confirmed breach of a Department of Defense-affiliated medical university poses significant risk to national security, operational continuity of military medical training, and potential exposure of sensitive health, personnel, and research data. Lack of proof publication does not diminish the critical nature of the target.

LockBit3 claims to have breached Uniformed Services University. The group's leak post provides minimal detail on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or specific data compromised, beyond confirming the target.

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What the group claims

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S.

Sources

Victim siteusuhs.edu
Leak posthttp://lockbit3g3ohd3katajf6zaehxz4h4cnhmz5t735zpltywhwpc6oy3id.onion/post/nBbkxyF1DtRlLg1H679f983e04f63

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 2, 2025usuhs.edu listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

lockbit3 has been linked to 2,016 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, usuhs.edu is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means usuhs.edu 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 lockbit3'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.