Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 98 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 26, 2025hptc.org listed by Abysson the group's public leak site

Data size: 29 GB
Ransom demanded: $50

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hptc.org is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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High Point Treatment Center

listed as hptc.org · Claimed by Abyss · listed 10 months ago

29 GB

Data size

$50

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 26, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Abyss
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jul 26, 2025
Data size: 29 GB
Ransom demanded: $50

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

High Point Treatment Center, founded in 1996 and based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, provides residential, inpatient, outpatient, and community-based services for substance use disorder and mental health treatment. The organization serves individuals, families, and communities primarily in Southeastern Massachusetts and operates affiliated programs including SEMCOA and SSRAC.

Industry: Substance Use Disorder & Mental Health Treatment Services
Address: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 1.8 TB from a healthcare provider treating vulnerable populations (substance use disorder and mental health patients). Data almost certainly includes protected health information (PHI), medical records, and personal information of patients receiving sensitive mental health and addiction treatment services, all of which are regulated under HIPAA and state privacy laws.

The Abyss group claims to have exfiltrated 1.8 TB of uncompressed data from High Point Treatment Center. The group has published encrypted archives on their dark web portal with passwords and file lists, indicating confirmed data exfiltration.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient records
Medical records
Mental health and substance use treatment files
Administrative documents
Personal identifiable information

The group's post references roughly 3 proof files proof files.

What the group claims

High Point Treatment Center, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, offers residential and outpatient services to prevent and treat chemical dependency and provides therapeutic services for mental health issues.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

```
let data = [
{
        'title' : 'thinlinetech.com',
        'short' : 'thinlinetech.com 29Gb uncompressed data',
        'full' : 'Thinline Technologies <br>' +
                 'Thinline Technologies offers reliable IT consulting and expert computer and network support services to businesses in the Baltimore metro area.<br> They specialize in network administration, technology planning, and help desk services, focusing on increasing productivity and profitability for small to mid-size businesses.<br>'+
            'password: 6oGfyIRISQmmI3Ge2kEeyu7hbzONONEFpkcnhC1S4Ygk4iSpw4RRxDXY1uk9xeyUXOmg7UOuZvGekRc9cs8E61LWKdI08uv0kUyC4V6YxaETtrhniAtKD9t7FQ2qTFYi<br>'+
            'Link â„–1 Filelist',
        'links' : [
            "http://zngbsq66uwem4qzyxpqb5rjo2xebnbwdku27nhmquryx6ljnbbedhiad.onion/thinline.lst.zip",
            "http://zngbsq66uwem4qzyxpqb5rjo2xebnbwdku27nhmquryx6ljnbbedhiad.onion/thinline.rar"
        ]
},
{
        'title' : 'crownlaboratories.com',
        'short' : 'crownlaboratories.com 8Tb uncompressed data',
        'full' : 'Crown Laboratories <br>' +
                 'Crown Laboratories, founded in 2000 and based in Johnson City, TN, provides pharmaceutica…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitehptc.org

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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