Was Watsonclinic.com hit by ransomware?

Watsonclinic.com was listed by the Donutleaks 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 Donutleaks ransomware group?

Donutleaks 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 Watsonclinic.com breach?

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

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Watson Clinic LLP

listed as Watsonclinic.com · Claimed by Donutleaks · listed 2 years ago

28m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 9, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Donutleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Mar 9, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Watson Clinic LLP is a family health and medical center based in Lakeland, Florida, operating as a multi-specialty healthcare provider with numerous locations across central Florida. The clinic offers a wide range of medical services including cardiology, oncology, surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, and urgent care, along with specialized centers for cancer research and rehabilitation.

Industry: Healthcare - Multi-specialty Medical Center
Address: Lakeland, Florida, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of healthcare data (medical records and PII) from a multi-specialty medical center serving thousands of patients. Healthcare data is regulated under HIPAA and other privacy laws; large-scale patient medical records constitute highly sensitive regulated information.

Donutleaks claims to have conducted penetration testing on Watson Clinic's Active Directory network, identifying vulnerabilities (approximately 90% reportedly exploited). The group claims exfiltration of medical data and has begun publishing the dataset after the victim remained unresponsive for approximately one month.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Medical records
Patient personal information
Active Directory credentials/configurations
Network infrastructure data

What the group claims

We starting publishing data related medical company from U.S. they was silent almost a month. Soon here will be posted first pack of data. They was pen-tested by some another us-based company and they found a lot of vulnerability in Watsonclinic active directory network - and 90% of them…

Sources

Victim sitewatsonclinic.com
Leak posthttp://sbc2zv2qnz5vubwtx3aobfpkeao6l4igjegm3xx7tk5suqhjkp5jxtqd.onion/watsonclinic-com/

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donutleaks

Donutleaks is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a pattern of targeting critical infrastructure and business sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, with limited information available from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Based on the limited public documentation available, the group has demonstrated a preference for attacking healthcare, technology, manufacturing, business services, and telecommunications sectors, with their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities not extensively detailed in current threat intelligence reporting. Donutleaks has been associated with approximately 42 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Italy, Iran, and Spain, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom demands have not been widely reported by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies. The current operational status of Donutleaks remains unclear due to limited public threat intelligence coverage of this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 42 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2022; most recent post July 24, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 9, 2024Watsonclinic.com listed by Donutleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Donutleaks

Donutleaks has been linked to 42 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, Watsonclinic.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donutleaks means Watsonclinic.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 Donutleaks'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.