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Webstercare

listed as webstercare.com.au · Claimed by Payloadbin · listed 5 years ago

58m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 9, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payloadbin
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Sep 9, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Webstercare is an Australian company that invented the Webster-pak medication management system, providing medication packs, automation, software, charting, and reporting solutions for pharmacies, aged care facilities, community care providers, prescribers, and individuals. The company has been operating for over 40 years and also offers the MedCare electronic medication compliance platform connecting care teams in real-time. Their products and services are used across Australia's healthcare and aged care sectors.

Industry
Medication Management & Healthcare Technology

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Webstercare operates in the aged care and healthcare medication management sector in Australia, handling sensitive patient medication profiles, clinical communications, and resident health data across pharmacies and aged care facilities. A confirmed data publication event in this sector implies likely exposure of regulated healthcare and personal medical data at scale, meeting the critical threshold.

The Payloadbin ransomware group claims to have compromised Webstercare, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and released. No specific details on encrypted systems or the precise nature of published data were captured in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Potentially patient/resident medication records
  • Healthcare provider information
  • Business operational data
  • Software and clinical communication data

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Payloadbin

Payloadbin is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting diverse sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on observed victim patterns, Payloadbin has demonstrated a broad targeting approach without apparent sector specialization, though they have notably impacted healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture and food production, and telecommunications organizations across 48 documented cases. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their operational pattern suggests standard ransomware deployment tactics. The group has primarily targeted victims in the United States, Philippines, Australia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or potential linguistic capabilities spanning English-speaking regions and select international markets. No major high-profile campaigns, significant law enforcement disruptions, or notable ransomware payment records have been publicly attributed to this group by federal agencies or established threat intelligence firms. Current operational status remains unclear due to limited public documentation, though the group's relatively recent emergence and modest victim count suggests they may represent a smaller-scale operation compared to prominent ransomware families tracked by CISA and FBI reporting. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 9, 2021webstercare.com.au listed by Payloadbinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payloadbin

Payloadbin has been linked to 48 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 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, webstercare.com.au is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payloadbin means webstercare.com.au 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Payloadbin'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.