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Latham Centers

listed as lathamcenters.org · Claimed by Abyss · listed 3 years ago

75 GB
Data size
32m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 5, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Nov 5, 2023
Data size
75 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Latham Centers is a nonprofit special education and therapeutic services organization located in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Founded in 1970, it serves children and adults with complex disabilities, and is internationally recognized for its expertise in Prader-Willi syndrome. It operates a residential school for children, adult group residences, and community-based living programs across Cape Cod and Southeastern Massachusetts.

Industry
Special Education & Disability Residential Services
Address
1646 Main St. (Route 6A), Brewster, MA 02631
Founded
1970

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a healthcare and residential care provider handling sensitive medical, disability, and personal data for vulnerable individuals (children and adults with complex disabilities). 75 GB of data has been published, indicating confirmed exfiltration of likely regulated PII and protected health information (PHI) at scale.

The Abyss ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 75 GB of uncompressed data from Latham Centers 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/resident records
  • Medical and clinical files
  • Special needs and disability care data
  • Staff and employee records
  • Financial and operational documents

What the group claims

lathamcenters.org 75Gb 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

  • November 5, 2023lathamcenters.org listed by Abysson the group's public leak site
Data size
75 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, lathamcenters.org 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 lathamcenters.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 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.