St. Joseph County
About the organisation
We, the members of Handala Hack, proudly announce that through a targeted and intelligent operation, we have completely taken control of the centralized IT infrastructure of St. Joseph County in the state of Indiana. This operation was successfully executed after months of monitoring, reconnaissance, and meticulous planning. During this attack, over 2 terabytes of the…
What the listing means
St. Joseph County appeared on the handala leak site on 08 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 01 April 2026, 6 days before the listing. This group has not published new claims in the last 30 days.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing St. Joseph County as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account with this organisation, change the password now 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 — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/U3QuIEpvc2VwaCBDb3VudHlAaGFuZGFsYQ==
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
