Disclosure context

About LockBit

LockBit is a highly prolific ransomware group that emerged in October 2020 and has become one of the most active ransomware operations globally, with over 3,500 documented victims and a primary motivation of financial gain through extortion. The group is suspected to originate from Russia and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while providing them with ransomware tools, infrastructure, and support. LockBit primarily gains initial access through exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, credential stuffing attacks, and phishing campaigns, employing double extortion tactics where they steal sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated significant technical sophistication, developing multiple variants including LockBit 3.0 (also known as LockBit Black), and has been particularly active in targeting business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors across the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy. Despite ongoing law enforcement efforts and international cooperation to disrupt their operations, including seizures of infrastructure and arrests of affiliates, LockBit has shown resilience and adaptability, continuing to operate and evolve their tactics while maintaining their position as one of the most dominant ransomware threats in the cybercriminal landscape. The group has been linked to 3,536 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2020; most recent post March 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: LockBit 3.0, LockBit Black, LockBit Green, ABCD ransomware.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 23, 2026smilescare.com listed by LockBiton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, smilescare.com is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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smilescare.com

Claimed by LockBit · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: LockBit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SmilesCare (smilescare.com) is a dental education and oral health blog based in the United States. The site publishes informational articles covering topics such as dentistry, periodontal health, dental hygiene, orthodontics, endodontics, and oral pathology. It appears to operate as a content/media platform rather than a clinical dental practice.

Industry: Dental Health Education & Online Publishing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published by LockBit, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but the target appears to be a small informational blog with no evident large-scale PII, medical records, or financial data. Scale and sensitivity of exposed data are low to moderate, warranting a medium severity rating.

LockBit claims to have attacked smilescare.com and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, suggesting data exfiltration has occurred; however, the leak post provides no specific detail on the volume or nature of data stolen, and no ransom amount or data size was stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Website/blog content and files
Potentially administrative credentials or backend data
Any stored user or subscriber data

What the group claims

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Sources

Victim sitesmilescare.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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