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Pierce Township

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 3 days ago

3 TB
Data size
457 files records
2d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 15, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Aug 15, 2026
Data size
3 TB
Records
457 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pierce Township is a municipal government entity in Ohio covering 23.5 square miles with a population of over 16,000 residents. It provides standard local government services including judicial, fire, and administrative functions.

Industry
Local Government Administration
Employees
16000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated sensitive data at scale: employee PII including SSN and health insurance records, judicial materials, hospital records, and government financial documents. This represents exposure of both citizen and employee personal information plus government operational data.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated approximately 3 TB of township data, including judicial records, employee personally identifiable information (SSN, CDL licenses, health insurance records), legal settlements, financial records, and internal email archives.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Judicial materials and Grand Jury subpoena responses
  • Hospital records (Mercy Hospital)
  • Public records requests
  • Fire investigation reports
  • Employee Social Security numbers
  • CDL licenses
  • Health insurance waivers
  • New-hire employment packets
  • Legal settlement documents
  • Financial budgets and tax levies
  • Internal email archives

What the group claims

Pierce Township is a growing community in Ohio that blends rural charm with suburban living, covering 23.5 square miles and home to over 16,000 residents.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Pierce Township is a growing community in Ohio that blends rural charm with suburban living, covering 23.5 square miles and home to over 16,000 residents.**We are pleased to present:** Judicial materials - Grand Jury subpoena response incl. hospital records (Mercy Hospital), public records requests, fire investigation reportsEmployee PII - Social Security numbers (SSA-1945, W-4, Ohio Tax forms), CDL licenses, health insurance waivers, new-hire packetsLegal settlements - Logan Creek v. Pierce Township, Purdue opioid settlement, easement and lease agreementsFinancial records - budgets, tax levies, appropriation reports, invoices, paymentsInternal email archives of township officials and administration
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Data the group says was taken

  • judicial materials
  • grand jury subpoena response
  • hospital records
  • public records requests
  • fire investigation reports
  • employee PII
  • social security numbers
  • CDL licenses
  • health insurance waivers
  • new-hire packets
  • legal settlements
  • financial records
  • internal email archives

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Pierce Township

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 287 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post August 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 15, 2026Pierce Township listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site
Data size
3 TB
Records
457 files

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 287 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pierce Township is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Pierce Township appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 Rhysida'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.