Was painproclinics.com hit by ransomware?

painproclinics.com was listed by the Ransomcortex 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 Ransomcortex ransomware group?

Ransomcortex 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 painproclinics.com breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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painPRO Clinics

listed as painproclinics.com · Claimed by Ransomcortex · listed 2 years ago

24m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 12, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomcortex
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Jul 12, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

painPRO Clinics is a Canadian, therapist-owned, family-operated healthcare provider offering integrated services across multiple disciplines including physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic, kinesiology, clinical pilates, acupuncture, and telemedicine. Operating across six locations in British Columbia, they serve patients requiring pain relief, injury recovery, and movement performance optimization.

Industry: Healthcare & Wellness Services - Multi-disciplinary Rehabilitation & Therapy
Address: Multiple locations in British Columbia, Canada (Coal Harbour Vancouver, Downtown City Square Vancouver, Broadway Burnaby, Metroton North Surrey, City Centre Surrey, Memorial Coquitlam Centre)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Healthcare provider with patient data at risk; data publication confirmed but truncated post provides no specific proof count or detailed exfiltration inventory. Patient PII and health records are regulated data, but scale and extent of exposure unclear from available information.

Ransomcortex claims to have conducted an attack on painPRO Clinics. The specific nature of the compromise (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and affected data types are not detailed in the truncated leak post provided.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

patient personal information
medical/health records
insurance information
appointment/booking data

What the group claims

Our uncompromising approach to healthcare is focused on pain relief, injury recovery, and movement performance. Getting fast effective results is…

Sources

Victim sitepainproclinics.com
Leak posthttp://gg6owuhu72muoelkt2msjrp2llwr2on5634sk5v2xefzmobvryywbhid.onion/?p=98

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomcortex

Ransomcortex is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivation based on their targeting patterns and ransom demands. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their primary focus on Brazilian targets suggests potential regional connections or familiarity with local business environments. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and service sectors, specifically healthcare, manufacturing, and hospitality organizations, though specific details about their initial access methods, encryption techniques, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics have not been extensively documented by major security firms. With only four confirmed victims since their emergence six months ago, Ransomcortex appears to operate on a smaller scale compared to established ransomware families, and no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. As of early 2024, the group appears to remain active but maintains a relatively low profile in the ransomware landscape. The group has been linked to 4 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 12, 2024painproclinics.com listed by Ransomcortexon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomcortex

Ransomcortex has been linked to 4 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomcortex dossier →

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, painproclinics.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomcortex means painproclinics.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 Ransomcortex'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.