Victim Claim
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Claimed by
rhysida
Listed on leak site
19 May 2026
Reported attack date
19 May 2026
Group claims tracked
5
Unverified claim.
This entry reproduces a listing published by the rhysida group on its own extortion site.
Attackers routinely exaggerate or fabricate victims. Nothing here confirms that
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart suffered a breach, or what data was actually taken.
About the organisation
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital city of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwestern Germany.
What the listing means
Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart appeared on the rhysida leak site on 19 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 not published new claims in the last 30 days.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart as suspicious β leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on stuttgart.de, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Public Sector 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 β check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/TGFuZGVzaGF1cHRzdGFkdCBTdHV0dGdhcnRAcmh5c2lkYQ==