Was Hattiesburg Eye Clinic hit by ransomware?

Hattiesburg Eye Clinic was listed by the thegentlemen 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 Hattiesburg Eye Clinic breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Hattiesburg Eye Clinic. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Hattiesburg Eye Clinic

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hattiesburg Eye Clinic is a family ophthalmology practice founded in 1974 by Dr. David Richardson in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, now operated by his son Dr. Ben Richardson. The clinic operates as a full-service eye care provider with 8 ophthalmologists and 1 optometrist, featuring an on-site surgery center and optical shop offering cataract surgery, LASIK, glaucoma treatment, retina care, and pediatric services.

Industry: Ophthalmology & Eye Care Services
Address: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Employees: 9-50
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration from a healthcare provider with patient-identifiable and protected health information at stake; status marked as 'data_published' indicates proof has been released.

The group claims to have exfiltrated data from Hattiesburg Eye Clinic. The leak post does not specify what data categories were stolen or the scope of the breach.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Personal health information

What the group claims

hattiesburgeyeclinic.com zoominfo.com/c/hattiesburg-eye-clinic-pa/46138946 1974-founded family ophthalmology practice in Hattiesburg, Mississippi — started by Dr. David Richardson and now run by his son Dr. Ben Richardson, making it the region's oldest and largest eye clinic (8 ophthalmologists + 1 optometrist, on-site surgery center and optical shop). Full-stack eye care under one roof: cataract surgery — including the first Light Adjustable Lens (RxSight LAL) in south Mississippi — LASIK, glaucoma (MIGS), retina injections, oculoplastics, pediatric and diabetic eye care.

Sources

Victim sitehattiesburgeyeclinic.com

Source

Indexed 20 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Hattiesburg Eye Clinic listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 868 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 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hattiesburg Eye Clinic is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Hattiesburg Eye Clinic 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 thegentlemen'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.