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Baltimore Medical System

listed as bmsi.org · Claimed by Braincipher · listed 10 months ago

10m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Braincipher
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Sep 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baltimore Medical System (BMS) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing community-based primary and preventive healthcare services in Baltimore, Maryland. BMS operates multiple clinic locations and pharmacies, serving underserved populations including low-income patients, refugees, and non-English speakers. The organization offers a sliding-fee scale and free medication delivery, and has been operating for at least 40 years.

Industry
Community Health Centers & Primary Care
Address
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a community healthcare provider handling large volumes of protected health information (PHI) and PII. The group claims exfiltration of over 1 TB of data and has published multiple download links, indicating data has already been publicly released. A breach of this scale at a medical organization constitutes a critical disclosure under HIPAA and represents severe risk to patients.

The Braincipher ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated more than 1 TB of data from Baltimore Medical System, with the stolen data published and available for download via multiple Tor (.onion) links.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Personal health information (PHI)
  • Patient demographic data
  • Pharmacy records
  • Insurance and billing information
  • Staff/employee records
  • Organizational financial data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site
We have more 1TB of data. If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
⏳ 11d 22h 39m 6s remaining 
Download: 3fg2gfwrdks46drwvejpgpak5klrflclsjjo35dxtqfk3poeez6oezad.onion If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
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Download: a4vbe7yp4kluped6khuhpr5nmzshiimx2jt5j22ozriiq6ngsm3fcpyd.onion If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
Download: x3nb7qcygpem2j5xzstyzdtgzofzkwkx4eko3ug4r73i6uhcgvyffjyd.onion If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
Download: 3frnhzcnlkjnw5q3tm6elzizinm2k3bmrtf2xwqjzpcxzeqwn2tv6wyd.onion If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
Download: 6ft2dfh26wm3w44orpjcgviutvfp25ez2iyh5ego5egvfmifrws7vvqd.onion If you think you are here by mistake, please contact us at [email protected] 
Download: zijgmuqjzb6dc7pofxhtaiz36qqyg35lhutybmzaz6whzgei2casjgid.onion If you think…

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Braincipher

Braincipher is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and targeting organizations primarily across North America and Europe. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing, likely operating as an independent entity rather than through established ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, though their victim distribution across 44 confirmed targets spanning business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors indicates a generalist approach to target selection rather than sector-specific expertise. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly documented against this group by reputable sources, suggesting either a relatively low-impact operational scale or insufficient intelligence collection on their activities. As of current reporting, the group's operational status remains unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 69 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 1, 2024; most recent post July 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: brain cipher.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 16, 2025bmsi.org listed by Braincipheron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Braincipher

Braincipher has been linked to 69 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Braincipher dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, bmsi.org is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Braincipher means bmsi.org 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 Braincipher'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.