Was Ancillae-Assumpta Academy hit by ransomware?

Ancillae-Assumpta Academy was listed by the Snatch 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 Ancillae-Assumpta Academy breach?

Snatch published data attributed to Ancillae-Assumpta Academy. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Ancillae-Assumpta Academy

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 25, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 25, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ancillae-Assumpta Academy is a private Catholic elementary school (pre-school through grade 8) located near Bucks County, Pennsylvania, founded in 1945 by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The school blends a Montessori-rooted early childhood program with a rigorous Gospel-values curriculum and 21st-century skills framework. It has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School and has appeared on the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School roster.

Industry: Private K-8 Catholic Education
Address: Wyndmoor / Glenside area, Pennsylvania (near Bucks County), United States
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1945

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group has reached data_published status, indicating actual exfiltration and release of data from a school serving minors. Records likely include PII of children and families (a protected class under FERPA and COPPA), which constitutes sensitive regulated data; however, the scale is limited to a small private K-8 school, stopping short of critical.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked Ancillae-Assumpta Academy and has reached the data_published stage of disclosure, indicating exfiltration and publication of data. The leak post does not specify the volume of data or whether encryption also occurred.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Family/parent personal information
Faculty and staff records
Financial aid and tuition data
Admissions records
Alumni information
School administrative documents

What the group claims

As a private Catholic elementary school, Ancillae-Assumpta Academy has a clearly articulated and rigorous curriculum rooted in Gospel values and focused on 21st century skills. Since 1945, the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have provided a unique educational program for students in pre-school

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 25, 2023Ancillae-Assumpta Academy listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ancillae-Assumpta Academy is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Ancillae-Assumpta Academy 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 Snatch'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.