Was jackpotjunction.com hit by ransomware?

jackpotjunction.com was listed by the lockbit3 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 lockbit3 ransomware group?

lockbit3 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 jackpotjunction.com breach?

lockbit3 published data attributed to jackpotjunction.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel

listed as jackpotjunction.com · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 1 year ago

$1.040

Ransom

demanded

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 16, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Apr 16, 2025
Ransom demanded: $1.040

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel is a casino and resort located in Morton, Minnesota, operating over 440,000 square feet of gaming space with table games, slot machines, hotel accommodations, an RV park, golf course, dining, and entertainment venues.

Industry: Casino & Gaming / Hospitality
Address: Morton, Minnesota, United States

Attack summary

Severity: low — No credible attack claim is present in the leak post. The text is promotional casino marketing language, not evidence of ransomware encryption, data exfiltration, or breach. This appears to be a mislabeling or test case where group claims are absent.

The leak post does not describe an actual attack. The content is a promotional announcement for a casino drawing promotion offering $1,040 in cash or free play, not a claim of data exfiltration or encryption by the ransomware group.

low

What the group claims

Cash in on big wins this tax season! Every hour from 5 - 9 pm, one lucky winner will snag $1,040 in CASH or Free Play! Earn just 25 points, print your voucher at a kiosk, and drop it in the drawing barrel for your shot at a hefty payout!

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 16, 2025jackpotjunction.com listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $1.040

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, jackpotjunction.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means jackpotjunction.com 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 lockbit3'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.