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Whatcom County Library System

Claimed by Unsafeleak · listed 4 years ago

$7.00M
Est. revenue
company size proxy
43m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 21, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Unsafeleak
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 21, 2022
Estimated revenue
$7.00M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Whatcom County Library System (WCLS) is a public library network serving Whatcom County, Washington, USA. It operates multiple branch locations including Blaine, Deming, Everson, Ferndale, and others, as well as a Bookmobile and mobile services. WCLS provides books, digital content, community programs, and various lending services to county residents.

Industry
Public Library System
Address
610 3rd Street, Blaine, WA 98230 (headquarters branch listed first; administrative offices not explicitly stated)

Attack summary

Severity: high — This is a government/public sector entity with data_published status, meaning exfiltrated data has been released. A public library system holds patron PII (library card holders, borrowing records, contact details), staff records, and potentially sensitive community data. Publication of this data constitutes confirmed exfiltration of a government entity's records with likely PII exposure.

The group 'Unsafeleak' claims to have obtained data from Whatcom County Library System and has published it (disclosed status: data_published). The leak post provides no explicit detail on encryption or specific data categories, but the data is listed as published with a noted revenue figure of approximately $7 million.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Organizational financial data
  • Potentially patron/staff records

What the group claims

country: US - revenue: 7.00M

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Unsafeleak

Unsafeleak is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across developed nations. The group has claimed 14 victims to date, with their operations concentrated in the United States, France, and Switzerland, showing a preference for attacking manufacturing companies, government entities, educational institutions, and transportation/logistics organizations. Due to the limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources, specific details about Unsafeleak's country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, and technical capabilities remain largely unknown to security researchers. Given the group's recent emergence and relatively small victim count, there have been no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have garnered significant attention from law enforcement agencies or cybersecurity firms. The current operational status of Unsafeleak is unclear, as the group's low profile and limited public reporting make it difficult to determine whether they remain active, have ceased operations, or have potentially rebranded under a different name. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 21, 2022; most recent post January 14, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 21, 2022Whatcom County Library System listed by Unsafeleakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Unsafeleak

Unsafeleak has been linked to 14 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Unsafeleak dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Whatcom County Library System is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Unsafeleak means Whatcom County Library System 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 Unsafeleak'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.