Was Aberdeen hit by ransomware?

Aberdeen was listed by the Eldorado ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Eldorado ransomware group?

Eldorado is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Aberdeen breach?

Eldorado published data attributed to Aberdeen. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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City of Aberdeen

listed as Aberdeen · Claimed by Eldorado · listed 2 years ago

20m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 18, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Eldorado
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial
Listed on leak site: Nov 18, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

City of Aberdeen is a municipal government entity located in Washington State, serving the community of Aberdeen, WA. The city provides standard local government services including public works, utilities, parks and recreation, permit administration, and emergency management.

Industry: Local Government
Address: 200 E Market, Aberdeen, WA 98520

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published from a municipal government entity suggests potential exposure of public records and administrative data; however, the leak post lacks specificity about data type, volume, or sensitivity. No confirmed exfiltration of PII at scale or critical infrastructure damage is documented in the post.

The Eldorado group claims to have compromised Aberdeen's systems and published data. The group post contains an AI-generated description of the unrelated Aberdeen asset management company, suggesting misattribution or confusion in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal records
Government databases
Utility systems data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Aberdeen is a global asset management company headquartered in the UK, known for providing investment solutions across a diverse range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and alternatives. It focuses on delivering sustainable investment strategies and has a strong presence in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, emphasizing research-driven and client-focused approaches.

Sources

Victim siteaberdeenwa.gov

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Eldorado

Eldorado is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in June 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a relatively broad targeting approach across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with no confirmed links to state actors or established ransomware families, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal RaaS model. Specific technical details regarding Eldorado's initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration capabilities have not been extensively documented in public security research, though their targeting of over 112 victims across diverse sectors including business services, technology, manufacturing, and financial services suggests they employ opportunistic attack methodologies rather than highly specialized techniques. The group has demonstrated a geographic focus primarily on the United States and Canada, with additional activity observed in Italy, UAE, and Croatia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or major ransomware incidents have been publicly attributed to this group by federal agencies or major security firms. As of current reporting, Eldorado appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities, though the limited public visibility of their operations suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 112 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2024; most recent post January 22, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: el dorado.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 18, 2024Aberdeen listed by Eldoradoon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Eldorado

Eldorado has been linked to 112 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Aberdeen is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Eldorado means Aberdeen appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Eldorado's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.