Lake Washington School District
About the organisation
Founded in 1914, Lake Washington School District is the administrative body responsible for planning and managing public education for 33 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools. It serves communities of Kirkland, Redmond and about half of Sammamish. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
What the listing means
Lake Washington School District appeared on the cmdorganization leak site on 31 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 12 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Lake Washington School District as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on lwsd.wednet.edu, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Education 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/TGFrZSBXYXNoaW5ndG9uIFNjaG9vbCBEaXN0cmljdEBjbWRvcmdhbml6YXR...