Was Austin Plastic Surgery Institute hit by ransomware?

Austin Plastic Surgery Institute was listed by the pear 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 pear ransomware group?

pear 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 Austin Plastic Surgery Institute breach?

pear published data attributed to Austin Plastic Surgery Institute. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Austin Plastic Surgery Institute

Claimed by Pear · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Austin Plastic Surgery Institute is a board-certified plastic surgery practice located in Westlake, Austin, Texas. They provide cosmetic and reconstructive surgical services.

Industry: Healthcare — Cosmetic Surgery
Address: Westlake, Austin, TX, US

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated healthcare data including PHI/PII at scale (patient records), intimate patient images, and payment information. Healthcare data breaches are federally regulated under HIPAA and represent high-risk personal and sensitive information exposure.

The pear group claims to have exfiltrated financial records, HR data, vendor and partner information, patient intimate images, personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), payment card details, and email correspondence from the organization.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records
HR data
Vendor and partner information
Patient intimate images
PII (personally identifiable information)
PHI (protected health information)
Payment card details
Email correspondence and mailboxes

What the group claims

A center staffed by highly skilled plastic surgeons

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim siteaustinpsi.com
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/austinpsi

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post August 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 20, 2026Austin Plastic Surgery Institute listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 114 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, Austin Plastic Surgery Institute is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Austin Plastic Surgery Institute 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 pear'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.