Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,857 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026Metro-ILA Funds listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Metro-ILA Funds is reported in DE, a country with 333 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Metro-ILA Funds

Claimed by qilin · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: DE
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Metro-ILA Funds is a New Jersey-based organization administering multiple employee benefit funds, including a Fringe Benefit Fund, a Pension Fund, and an I.A.R. Fund, serving members associated with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) in the metro area. The organization manages retirement and fringe benefit plans on behalf of union members and their beneficiaries. It operates from Rutherford, NJ and can be contacted via phone and email.

Industry: Labor Union Benefit & Pension Fund Administration
Address: 301 Route 17 North, 7th Floor, Rutherford, NJ 07070

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Metro-ILA Funds administers pension and fringe benefit plans for union members, meaning the data held is highly likely to include regulated PII, financial records, and retirement account information at scale. The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating actual exfiltrated data has been released publicly, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Qilin ransomware group has claimed an attack on Metro-ILA Funds and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating exfiltrated data has been released. No further details on the nature of exfiltrated data or encryption activity are provided in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee/member benefit records
Pension fund data
Fringe benefit plan documents
Personally identifiable information of union members
Financial/retirement account information

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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