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Windward Life Care

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 5, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Windward Life Care →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: HealthcareDiscovered: 2026-01-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Windward Life Care offers premier home care, aging life care management, and home health care services specifically designed for older and disabled adults in San Diego, CA. Their services include personalized Aging Life Care Management, companionship, transportation, personal care, and skilled nursing services. With over 20 years of experience, they focus on enhancing the quality of life for their clients by providing exceptional support and navigating the complexities of health care. Windward Life Care aims to foster independence and safety for their clients within the comfort of their own homes.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 5, 2026

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 4 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGApr 10 · first
New Hampshire State AGApr 10 · first
Vermont State AGApr 10 · first

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2025-03-24

sinobi

According to ransomware.live, Sinobi is a private vetted-affiliate RaaS group that emerged in mid-2025, believed to be a rebrand of the Lynx/INC ransomware lineage, claiming 176 victims by end of 2025 through double-extortion attacks primarily against mid-market US organizations via compromised SonicWall VPN credentials.

274 victims claimed globally274 tracked hereFull profile →