Centro Médico Virgen De La Caridad
hive listed this organization on its leak site on Dec 31, 2022.
- Listing date
- Dec 31, 2022
- Attack date
- Dec 31, 2022
Listing text
Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad, a private health company with its own identity that was born in 1981 in the city of Cartagena, where it is headquartered, currently has 2 hospitals (Cartagena and Caravaca), 20 polyclinics, 23 physiotherapy clinics and 16 dental clinics , which are distributed throughout different parts of the Region of Murcia and Orihuela Costa. In addition, the group has 1 aesthetic clinic (Cartagena), plus 1 Ophthalmological clinic (Cartagena). The health entity that is committed to global, close, accessible and highly qualified care, is made up of more than 600 professionals (including health, administrative and patient care personnel) whose purpose is to offer a wide range of services on a daily basis under the better and more complete health care. All our centers are equipped with the most advanced technology, an essential support, which together with our highly qualified human capital, has made us, over almost 40 years of activity, a benchmark in private medicine in the Region of Murcia. We welcome you to Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad, where new challenges are not a problem but a challenge for growth and improvement in private healthcare .
About the group
hive posted its first listing on Aug 14, 2021 and has listed 208 organizations to date.
Hive is a strain of ransomware that was first discovered in June 2021. Hive was designed to be used by Ransomware-as-a-service providers, to enable novice cyber-criminals to launch ransomware attacks on healthcare providers, energy providers, charities, and retailers across the globe. In 2022 there was a switch from GoLang to Rust.
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