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Eye Clinic Surgicenter

bd_84dee81112d6230e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 26, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Eye Clinic Surgicenter3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Meow 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: 2024-10-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

<p>Dear customers!<\/p><p>We are thrilled to offer you exclusive access to over 59 GB of confidential data from The Eye Clinic Surgicenter, a renowned provider of comprehensive eye care located in Billings, Montana, with additional locations in Red Lodge, Lander, and Thermopolis. For over four decades, The Eye Clinic Surgicenter has led the way in eye care services, offering general eye care, LASIK, cataract surgery, glaucoma treatment, corneal procedures, and retinal care. As a pioneer in advanced technology, it was the first in Montana to introduce procedures like corneal cross linking and iStent surgery for glaucoma.<\/p><p>The clinics LASIK services are especially noteworthy, featuring advanced techniques such as wavefront guided LASIK for a highly customized vision correction experience. For patients not suitable for traditional LASIK, they provide alternative options like PRK and LASEK. The Eye Clinic Surgicenter is committed to delivering personalized care using state of the art equipment, with board certified surgeons ensuring top quality outcomes for vision correction procedures.<\/p><p>Specialized treatments at the clinic are enhanced by collaborations with expert retinal consultants, who address complex eye conditions including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal detachment. This enables the clinic to provide comprehensive care that covers both routine and advanced eye health needs.<\/p><p>This comprehensive data pack includes:<\/p><p>Employee data e.g., addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, drivers license scans<br>Client information including medical records, diagnoses, lab test results<br>Financial documents bank statements, tax forms<br>Personal data addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs<br>Agreements and certificates<br>Medical reports and health certificates<br>Documents from government and insurance agencies<br>

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 26, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-04

meow

According to ransomware.live, Meow emerged in 2022 (resurfacing aggressively in 2024), initially operating as a RaaS using the Conti v2 codebase before transitioning to a data-extortion-only model — selling stolen data rather than encrypting files — with a heavy focus on US healthcare and medical research organizations.

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