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Hospice of Huntington

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 22, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Hospice of Huntington2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Karakurt 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: 2023-09-22

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Hospice of Huntington, Inc. is the first hospice in the State of West Virginia. Founded in 1982. Karakurt has obtained 20 gb data of the hospice. Many financial and operating files. HR information, medical records, PI of volunteers, information of donations and much other.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 22, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteSep 22 · first · this page
HHS OCR+147d

Pattern: first filing Sep 22, last Feb 16 (WV) — a 147-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 2022-12-11

karakurt

According to ransomware.live, Karakurt is a pure data-extortion group (no encryption) assessed with high confidence to be the extortion arm of the Conti ransomware group, active from 2021, that steals data and threatens to auction or publish it unless ransoms ranging from $25,000 to $13 million are paid.

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