Was goldenstateortho.com hit by ransomware?

goldenstateortho.com was listed by the Braincipher 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 Braincipher ransomware group?

Braincipher 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 goldenstateortho.com breach?

Braincipher published data attributed to goldenstateortho.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Golden State Orthopedics & Spine

listed as goldenstateortho.com · Claimed by BrainCipher · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: BrainCipher
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Golden State Orthopedics & Spine is a multi-location orthopedic and spine medical practice operating across the San Francisco Bay Area and Central California, including cities such as San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Walnut Creek. They provide comprehensive orthopedic surgical services, spine care, sports medicine, interventional pain management, physical therapy, and diagnostic imaging (MRI, X-ray, EMG) to patients of all ages.

Industry: Healthcare - Orthopedic Surgery & Spine Medicine

Attack summary

Severity: high — Healthcare provider with confirmed data publication by ransomware group. Patient medical records and PHI exposure at a multi-location practice serving thousands of patients represents significant regulatory (HIPAA) violation and sensitive personal health data compromise, even without explicit proof file count disclosed.

BrainCipher claims to have conducted an attack on Golden State Orthopedics & Spine, with data published. The group's post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail what specific data was targeted or compromised.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Personal health information (PHI)
Patient contact information
Insurance/billing data
Clinical documentation

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Golden State Ortho appears to be an orthopedic medical practice or orthopedic supply company based in the United States, likely California given the "Golden State" reference. It operates in the healthcare industry, potentially offering orthopedic surgical services, prosthetics, orthotics, or related medical products and patient care. Specific verified details about this company are limited, so full operational details cannot be confirmed with certainty.

Sources

Victim sitegoldenstateortho.com
Leak posthttp://vkvsgl7lhipjirmz6j5ubp3w3bwvxgcdbpi3fsbqngfynetqtw4w5hyd.onion/n/goldenstateortho

Source

Indexed 2 days 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 67 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 1, 2024; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: brain cipher.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 1, 2026goldenstateortho.com listed by Braincipheron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Braincipher

Braincipher has been linked to 67 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Braincipher dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,594 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, goldenstateortho.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,107 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Braincipher means goldenstateortho.com 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.