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South St Paul Public Schools

Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 2 years ago

$25M
Ransom
demanded
28m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 15, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blacksuit
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Mar 15, 2024
Ransom demanded
$25M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

South St. Paul Public Schools (SSPPS) is a K-12 school district serving the South St. Paul area of Minnesota. The district operates multiple schools including elementary, middle, and high school campuses, along with community education and early learning programs, serving 251–500 employees.

Industry
Public Education
Address
South St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Employees
251-500

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Public K-12 school district with confirmed data exfiltration and publication. Victim population includes minors whose personally identifiable information, educational records, and potentially biometric data are likely compromised. This involves regulated data (FERPA-protected student records) at scale.

Blacksuit claims to have exfiltrated data from SSPPS and published it. The group is demanding $25M ransom and has marked the data as published, indicating confirmed data disclosure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student records
  • employee payroll data
  • administrative files
  • potentially sensitive educational records

What the group claims

South St Paul Public Schools is a company that operates in the Education industry. It employs 251-500 people and has $25M-$50M of revenue.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 15, 2024South St Paul Public Schools listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$25M

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 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, South St Paul Public Schools is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means South St Paul Public Schools 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 Blacksuit'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.