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WestcoastSmile Dental Studio

bd_e217094a1b97ef4b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Apr 23, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for WestcoastSmile Dental Studio

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2023-04-23

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

WestcoastSmile Kitsilano Dental Studio was established more than 20 years ago at 1-1874 W 1st Ave, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6J 1G5, Canada. The head is Dr. Jeffrey Jordan, who has been specializing in the dental field of medical activity for more than 30 years

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 23, 2023

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 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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