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MEDS

bd_92040f74d354d2e5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 19, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vanhelsing 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: 2025-03-19

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

In a world where technology makes everything easier, the old school pharmacy experience is still hard. Waiting in line is sucks, insurances don’t make sense, medications are expensive, and it’s impossible to ever speak to a pharmacist when needed. We started MEDS because the old pharmacy experience you’re used to needed to be changed, Yesterday! MEDS has been the go-to place to get hard to f

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 19, 2025

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

  • 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 2025-03-12

vanhelsing

According to ransomware.live, VanHelsing is a multi-platform RaaS operation that launched on March 7, 2025, requiring a $5,000 affiliate deposit and splitting ransoms 80/20, supporting Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi targets, reaching at least five victims across the US, France, Italy, and Australia within its first two months.

8 victims claimed globally8 tracked hereFull profile →