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Rhode Island Department of Human Services

listed as Rhode Island Department of Humain Services · Claimed by Braincipher · listed 2 years ago

18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 23, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Braincipher
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 23, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Rhode Island Department of Human Services is a state agency providing health insurance, financial assistance, childcare support, and other social services to Rhode Island residents. It administers programs including Medicaid, SNAP, and child welfare services.

Industry
Government Social Services & Public Health
Address
57 Howard Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island 02920, USA
Employees
1000-5000
Founded
1968

Attack summary

Severity: critical — State health & human services agency handles extremely sensitive PII at scale (Medicaid, SNAP, child welfare), including minors' data. Confirmed data publication by threat actor. Exposure of such records poses severe identity theft and privacy risks.

The Braincipher group claims to have accessed the Department of Human Services' systems and published data. The post indicates data exfiltration but provides minimal detail on scope or specific data categories.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Potentially PII (Social Security Numbers, addresses, dates of birth)
  • Financial aid records
  • Health insurance information
  • Child welfare case files
  • Benefit application data

What the group claims

Provides support and resources for health, financial aid, and social services in Rhode Island.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years 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

  • December 23, 2024Rhode Island Department of Humain Services 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:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rhode Island Department of Humain Services 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 Rhode Island Department of Humain Services 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.