Was San Diego Eye Bank hit by ransomware?

San Diego Eye Bank was listed by the pear 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 pear ransomware group?

pear 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 San Diego Eye Bank breach?

pear published data attributed to San Diego Eye Bank. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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San Diego Eye Bank

Claimed by Pear · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

San Diego Eye Bank is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1959, dedicated to procuring and distributing donated corneal, scleral, and other ocular tissues to patients requiring sight restoration and preservation in San Diego and globally. It holds FDA registration, EBAA accreditation, and multiple state tissue bank licenses. The organization also offers specialized products such as AutoSerumDrops for chronic dry eye treatment.

Industry: Non-Profit Eye & Tissue Banking (Healthcare)
Address: 3870 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite #250, San Diego, California 92123
Founded: 1959

Attack summary

Severity: critical — San Diego Eye Bank handles highly sensitive regulated healthcare data including donor and patient PII, medical records, and tissue procurement information covered under HIPAA. The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of data from a healthcare non-profit serving vulnerable populations.

The PEAR (Pure Extraction And Ransom) group claims to have exfiltrated data from San Diego Eye Bank, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', indicating stolen data has been released. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Donor records
Patient/recipient records
Medical and tissue procurement data
Organizational financial records
Staff and personnel information
Regulatory and compliance documentation

What the group claims

San Diego Eye Tissue Bank

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitesdeb.org
Leak posthttp://peargxn3oki34c4savcbcfqofjjwjnnyrlrbszfv6ujlx36mhrh57did.onion/Companies/sdeb

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 92 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post June 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 8, 2026San Diego Eye Bank listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 92 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 1,780 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, San Diego Eye Bank is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means San Diego Eye Bank 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on pear'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.