Was VITALDENT hit by ransomware?

VITALDENT was listed by the Madliberator ransomware operation (Spain), 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 Madliberator ransomware group?

Madliberator 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 VITALDENT breach?

Madliberator published data attributed to VITALDENT, around 8M patients records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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VITALDENT

Claimed by Madliberator · listed 2 years ago

8M patients

Records

24m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 17, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Madliberator
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 17, 2024
Records: 8M patients

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vitaldent is a major Spanish dental healthcare provider operating over 400 clinics across Spain. With more than 35 years of experience, the company has treated over 8 million patients and employs approximately 3,500 professionals plus 2,000 collaborating dentists. It is majority-owned by Advent International private equity firm, with annual turnover around €300 million.

Industry: Dental Healthcare Services
Employees: 5500
Founded: 1989

Attack summary

Severity: high — Healthcare provider with 8+ million patient records compromised; exfiltrated data likely includes protected health information (PHI) and PII at massive scale. Confirmed data publication by ransomware group.

Madliberator claims to have compromised Vitaldent and published exfiltrated data. The post does not explicitly detail the scope of data or operational impact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

patient medical records
personal identifiable information (PII)
financial/billing records
clinical treatment histories

What the group claims

Vitaldent is a dental company founded in 1989. Today, it has more than 400 clinics in Spain , has treated more than 8 million patients and has a large team of 3,500 professionals and 2,000 collaborating dentists. Its turnover is around 300 million euros. Advent International one of the most relevant and experienced private equity firms in the world, is the majority shareholder of Vitaldent...

Sources

Victim sitevitaldent.com
Leak posthttp://k67ivvik3dikqi4gy4ua7xa6idijl4si7k5ad5lotbaeirfcsx4sgbid.onion/vitaldent.com

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Madliberator

Madliberator is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across multiple continents. Based on their targeting pattern spanning Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and South Africa, the group appears to operate internationally with no clear geographic origin established by security researchers, and their operational model as either independent operators or ransomware-as-a-service remains undetermined due to limited public documentation. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms or government agencies. The group has primarily targeted business services, manufacturing, financial services, and government sectors, though no specific high-profile incidents or record ransom demands have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence providers. As of current reporting, Madliberator appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing targeting activities, though comprehensive analysis remains limited due to the group's relatively small victim count and recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 17, 2024; most recent post October 1, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: mad liberator.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 17, 2024VITALDENT listed by Madliberatoron the group's public leak site

Records: 8M patients

Other recent disclosures by Madliberator

Madliberator has been linked to 16 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 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, VITALDENT is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Madliberator means VITALDENT 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Madliberator'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.