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Watsonville Community Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 5, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Watsonville Community Hospital →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Termite 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: 2024-12-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Watsonville Community Hospital is community healthcare provider; a 106-bed facility that offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services to the culturally diverse tri-county area along California’s Central Coast.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 5, 2024

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 9 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 530d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Dec 31 (CA), last May 20 (NH) — a 505-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 2023-05-11

termite

According to ransomware.live, Termite is a ransomware group first identified in late 2024 using a modified version of Babuk ransomware code; its most notable attack was the November 2024 breach of supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder, claiming 680 GB of exfiltrated data and disrupting major customers including Starbucks.

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