Was Wakefield & Associates hit by ransomware?

Wakefield & Associates was listed by the Knight 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 Knight ransomware group?

Knight 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 Wakefield & Associates breach?

Knight published data attributed to Wakefield & Associates (~400 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Wakefield & Associates

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

400 GB

Data size

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 30, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Nov 30, 2023
Data size: 400 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wakefield & Associates, Inc. is a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) and collections company headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Aurora, CO, Fort Morgan, CO, and Jefferson City, MO. The company provides billing, collections, and RCM services to healthcare providers, and is partnering with Revco Solutions, Inc. to expand its suite of services. It also handles consumer credit reporting disputes, indicating it operates as a debt collection agency under healthcare finance.

Industry: Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management & Collections
Address: 320 N Cedar Bluff Road, Suite 300, Knoxville, TN 37923

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Wakefield & Associates handles healthcare RCM and debt collections for healthcare providers, meaning the 400 GB likely contains regulated data including patient financial records, medical billing information, and consumer PII subject to HIPAA and FCRA. Exfiltration at this scale from a healthcare-adjacent financial services firm constitutes a critical disclosure.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated over 400 GB of data from Wakefield & Associates and states the victim has refused to negotiate; the group threatens to publish the data to clients, partners, and the public if contact is not made.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Healthcare revenue cycle data
Patient billing records
Collections account data
Consumer credit dispute information
Client/partner business data

The group's post references roughly 6 proof files.

What the group claims

www.wakeassoc.com We have over 400GB of data from Wakefield and AssociatesThey refuse to come to discuss a deal with us. If you do not contact us soon all this information will be shared to their clients/partners and the world to see.proof 1.jpg 331.01 KBproof 2.jpg 59.34 KBproof 3.jpg 119.89 KBproof 4.jpg 59.26 KBproof 5.jpg 75.65 KBproof 6.jpg 78.77 KB

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 30, 2023Wakefield & Associates listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Data size: 400 GB

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Wakefield & Associates is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means Wakefield & Associates 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 Knight'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.