Was Consulate Health Care hit by ransomware?

Consulate Health Care was listed by the Hiveleak 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 Hiveleak ransomware group?

Hiveleak 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 Consulate Health Care breach?

Hiveleak published data attributed to Consulate Health Care. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Consulate Health Care

Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 4 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 6, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hiveleak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jan 6, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Consulate Health Care is a leading provider of senior healthcare services headquartered originally in Cheswick, PA, operating across 5 states in the United States. The company specializes in post-acute care, short-term rehabilitation, transitional care, and Alzheimer's and dementia care. It operates multiple skilled nursing and long-term care facilities serving elderly and recuperating patients.

Industry: Senior & Post-Acute Healthcare Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Consulate Health Care operates skilled nursing and long-term care facilities across multiple states, handling highly regulated and sensitive data including patient PII, protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA, and medical records for vulnerable elderly populations. The data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of this regulated sensitive data at scale.

The Hiveleak ransomware group claims to have attacked Consulate Health Care and has published data as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status, suggesting exfiltration of company and potentially patient data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient health records
Patient personal information
Medical care documentation
Employee records
Business operational data

What the group claims

Consulate Health Care is a leading provider of senior healthcare services, specializing in post-acute care. We offer services ranging from comprehensive short-term rehabilitation and transitional care to Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Consulate Health Care began as a small provider in Cheswick, PA with a strong focus on patient needs. We haven’t waivered from that focus, which has strengthened our family and allows us to sustain jobs in many communities, create rigorous systems of care and deploy technology that makes it easier to understand patient needs. Even as we’ve grown to provide services across 5 states, it’s the little things we do while fulfilling our mission statement of "Providing Service with Our Hearts and Hands" that really makes the difference. From visiting with our patients while they eat, to pulling up the sheets to just the right height, our employees care for patients like family, not because it’s their job, but because it’s their calling.

Sources

Victim siteconsulatehc.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hiveleak

Hiveleak is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, conducting targeted attacks primarily against organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany with a focus on manufacturing, business services, information technology, healthcare, and education sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding this group's specific country of origin or affiliations with other ransomware operations, though their targeting patterns and operational timeline suggest they operate as part of the broader ransomware ecosystem that proliferated during the 2021-2022 period. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in major threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or leading security research firms, though their victim count of 208 organizations indicates sustained operational capability over their known active period. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, suggesting the group may have maintained a lower profile compared to major ransomware operations like Conti or LockBit during the same timeframe. The current operational status of Hiveleak remains unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 6, 2023Consulate Health Care listed by Hiveleakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hiveleak

Hiveleak has been linked to 208 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, Consulate Health Care is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hiveleak means Consulate Health Care 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 Hiveleak'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.