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Wilmington Surgical Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 1, 2020

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Wilmington Surgical Associates →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Netwalker 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: 2020-10-21

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 1, 2020

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 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 274d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 8 (MA) — a 373-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 2020-01-31

netwalker

According to ransomware.live, NetWalker ransomware group operates by the threat actor known as "CIRCUS SPIDER". The NetWalker ransomware was discovered in 2019. The group mainly targeting the Asia Pacific region but can attack globally. The group uses common attacking tools like Mimikatz and other legitimate tools (LOLBINS) like PSTools, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, NLBrute, and more. The group knowing by targeting the healthcare sector. Finally, in January 2021, Netwalker was takedown by the authorities, the police have confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom payments collected by the Netwalker group, and they seized servers and disrupted the infrastructure and the darknet websites of the Netwalker ransomware group.

26 victims claimed globally17 tracked hereFull profile →