2026 Mile Bluff Medical Center — Dark Project leak-site claim (unverified)

Unverified ransomware / extortion leak-site claim — Dark Project published a listing naming Mile Bluff Medical Center on August 5, 2026, tracked by leak-site monitor ransomware.live. Mile Bluff Medical Center is a rural community hospital, the segment where ransomware most often disrupts care and exposes protected health information. At indexing time no statement from the organisation, no regulator filing and no reputable trade-press confirmation had been published, and the listing carried no attested record count, so recordsAffected is 0 and the row is labelled unverified. Leak-site listings are marketing for extortion: the appearance of a name proves the group claims access, not that data was stolen, that the claimed volume is real, or that individuals were affected. This row will be updated if the organisation confirms an incident, a regulator publishes a notification, or the group releases data that reporters validate. It was one of a large wave of listings indexed on August 5-6, 2026, when Dark Project, Qilin, RansomHouse, Orova, Barracuda, Akira, Play and Lynx all posted new victims within roughly 36 hours. Context specific to this victim: BreachHistory already carries a Mile Bluff Medical Center row for a ransomware encryption event in April 2026 that forced the hospital onto downtime procedures (/mile-bluff-medical-center/mile-bluff-medical-center2026). The Dark Project listing may be the extortion publication tied to that earlier disruption rather than a separate intrusion; no dates or systems were named in the listing and the health system had not connected the two publicly at indexing time.