Was The City of Hesperia, CA hit by ransomware?

The City of Hesperia, CA was listed by the Incransom 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 Incransom ransomware group?

Incransom 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 The City of Hesperia, CA breach?

Incransom published data attributed to The City of Hesperia, CA. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The City of Hesperia, CA

Claimed by Incransom · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Mar 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Hesperia is a incorporated municipality in San Bernardino County, California, incorporated in 1988. It provides local government services including public works, planning, law enforcement coordination, and community development to a population of approximately 100,000 residents in the High Desert region.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: 9700 Seventh Ave, Hesperia, CA 92345, United States
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1988

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated PII (employee and government official personal data), financial records, and sensitive government documents from a municipal government entity, representing a broad compromise of both personal and governmental sensitive data.

The Incransom group claims to have exfiltrated files containing sensitive government records including NDAs, contracts with public and private entities, personal data of employees and government officials, and financial documents including transactions, payment records, and tax documents; data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Non-disclosure agreements
Government contracts
Personal data of employees
Personal data of government officials
Transaction records
Payment documents
Tax documents
State secrets / sensitive government files

What the group claims

Access was gained to files containing state secrets, non-disclosure agreements, contracts with private and public companies, as well as personal data of employees and government officials. Transactions, payment, and tax documents were also obtained.

Sources

Leak posthttp://incblog6qu4y4mm4zvw5nrmue6qbwtgjsxpw6b7ixzssu36tsajldoad.onion/blog/disclosures/69a745538f1d14b743ba90ba

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Incransom

Incransom is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations as evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple developed nations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model. With 734 documented victims, Incransom has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, with particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers or government agencies. The group's notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources, suggesting either operational security effectiveness or limited visibility into their most significant operations. Based on available intelligence, Incransom appears to remain active as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status requires additional documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 829 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 9, 2023; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 4, 2026The City of Hesperia, CA listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 829 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 Public Sector sector, which has 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The City of Hesperia, CA is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means The City of Hesperia, CA 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Incransom'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.