MercyMed of Columbus
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Full breach record for MercyMed of Columbus →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
mercymedcolumbus.com zoominfo.com/c/mercymed-of-columbus/409041268 MercyMed of Columbus, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community health center founded in 2011 by Dr. Grant Scarborough, MD in Columbus, Georgia, serving uninsured and low-income patients across 4 clinics. It employs 32–85 staff plus ~150 volunteers and generated ~$2.5–3.9M in revenue (2024), providing $1.5–1.7M in free care annually — with 80¢ of every dollar going directly to programs. In 2024 it served 7,000+ patients with 20,729 primary care visits, 3,799 dental visits, and 1,566 prescriptions filled, including through its own in-house pharmacy (opened 2024). Services span family medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology, physical therapy, mental health counseling, and nutrition — with sliding-scale fees starting at $35/visit and completely free care for the homeless. A standout program is MercyMed Farm (since 2018), producing 18,000 lbs of organic vegetables/year for patients through SNAP-matched
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Oct 6, 2026
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.