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Houston Eye Associates

Claimed by Cmdorganization · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 14, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cmdorganization
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
May 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Houston Eye Associates is a multi-specialty eye care group based in the Greater Houston, Texas area, operating approximately 18–20 clinic locations. The practice employs board-certified ophthalmologists and board-licensed optometrists with fellowship training across subspecialties including cornea, retina, glaucoma, pediatrics, LASIK/refractive surgery, and oculoplastics. It also operates optical shops and has received over 43,000 patient reviews with an average 4.88-star rating.

Industry
Ophthalmology & Optometry Healthcare
Address
Houston, Texas, US

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Houston Eye Associates is a HIPAA-covered healthcare entity serving patients across 18–20 locations; data_published status indicates confirmed exfiltration of likely regulated medical/PII data at scale, meeting the critical threshold.

The cmdorganization ransomware group claims a data disclosure (status: data_published) against Houston Eye Associates, a US healthcare provider. The leak post does not explicitly detail encryption or the specific data categories exfiltrated, but the published-data status indicates patient and/or business records have been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records
  • Patient personal information (PII)
  • Insurance information
  • Business/operational records

What the group claims

Houston Eye Associates is a team of board-certified ophthalmologists and board-licensed optometrists with advanced fellowship and specialty training in the fields of ophthalmology and optometry. With 20 locations across Greater Houston, there is a location near you.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About cmdorganization

Based on the limited available information, cmdorganization is an obscure ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with only three documented victims to date, suggesting either a newly emerged threat actor or a small-scale operation with primarily financial motivations. The group's targeting pattern shows a geographic focus on Canada, the United States, and Italy, with a sectoral preference for healthcare and construction industries, though the limited victim count makes it difficult to establish definitive targeting criteria. Due to the recent emergence and low victim count, there is insufficient publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or operational structure. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported for this group, likely due to their limited operational scope and recent emergence. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active but operates at a relatively small scale compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2026; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: cmd organization.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 14, 2026Houston Eye Associates listed by cmdorganizationon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by cmdorganization

cmdorganization has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full cmdorganization dossier →

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, Houston Eye Associates is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by cmdorganization means Houston Eye Associates 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 cmdorganization'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.