Victim Claim
Medical Arts Chemists and Surgicals
● Listed in the last 48h
Claimed by
pear
Listed on leak site
20 Aug 2026
Reported attack date
18 Aug 2026
Group claims tracked
38
Unverified claim.
This entry reproduces a listing published by the pear group on its own extortion site.
Attackers routinely exaggerate or fabricate victims. Nothing here confirms that
Medical Arts Chemists and Surgicals suffered a breach, or what data was actually taken.
About the organisation
Prescriptions and Home Medical Equipment
What the listing means
Medical Arts Chemists and Surgicals appeared on the pear leak site on 20 August 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 18 August 2026, 2 days before the listing. This group has published 4 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Medical Arts Chemists and Surgicals as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on medarts.net, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Healthcare organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/TWVkaWNhbCBBcnRzIENoZW1pc3RzIGFuZCBTdXJnaWNhbHNAcGVhcg==
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
