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, 2022Dooly County School System listed by Unsafeleakon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dooly County School System is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Dooly County School System

Claimed by Unsafeleak · listed 3 years ago

$20.00M

Est. revenue

company size proxy

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 21, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Unsafeleak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 21, 2022
Estimated revenue: $20.00M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dooly County School System is a public K-12 school district serving Dooly County, Georgia, USA, headquartered in Vienna, GA. It operates multiple schools providing primary and secondary education to students in a rural Georgia county. The district is a government-run educational institution funded through state and local taxes.

Industry: K-12 Public Education
Address: Vienna, Georgia, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published,' indicating actual data release rather than a mere listing. A K-12 school district holds regulated data including student PII (potentially protected under FERPA), staff records, and financial information, making any confirmed exfiltration and publication inherently high severity.

The Unsafeleak group has claimed an attack on Dooly County School System and disclosed the data as published, though the leak post provides minimal detail on the nature of the intrusion (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or specific data categories stolen.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff/employee records
Financial data
Personally identifiable information (PII)

What the group claims

country: US - revenue: 20.00M

Sources

Victim sitedooly.k12.ga.us

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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