2026 Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice — Dark Project leak-site claim (unverified)
Data compromised
Actor listing names Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice (ohioliving.org), United States. No data-type inventory or record count was published or independently validated — unverified.
Technical writeup
Unverified ransomware / extortion leak-site claim — Dark Project published a listing naming Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice on August 5, 2026, tracked by leak-site monitor ransomware.live. Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice is a home health and hospice provider, so any real data theft would involve protected health information for patients receiving care at home. 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 separate Ohio Living row for a network intrusion on April 16-17, 2026 in which the organisation confirmed files were taken and began notifications in July 2026 (/ohio-living/ohio-living-network2026). The Dark Project listing may therefore be the leak-site publication of that earlier, already-disclosed intrusion rather than evidence of a second compromise; the group did not state which systems or dates it refers to, and Ohio Living had not linked the two publicly at indexing time.
Root cause
Unverified Dark Project ransomware/extortion leak-site listing naming Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice — the organisation had not confirmed any incident at indexing time.