Was Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy hit by ransomware?

Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy was listed by the Snatch 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy breach?

Snatch published data attributed to Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Alliance College-Ready Public Schools

listed as Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy · Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 10, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools is a network of tuition-free public charter middle and high schools (grades 6-12) founded in 2004 and located across Los Angeles County. The organization operates with a mission of equity-focused education for Black and Brown scholars in underserved communities and employs over 1,400 staff. The specific victim school listed, Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy, is one campus within this broader Alliance network.

Industry: K-12 Charter School Network
Address: Los Angeles, California, United States
Employees: 1400
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning data has been actively leaked. The victim is a K-12 educational institution serving minors from underserved communities, making it highly likely that regulated PII including student records (potentially covered by FERPA), minor children's personal data, and family information are among the exfiltrated files.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked Alliance College-Ready Public Schools (via the Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy campus) and has published data, indicating exfiltration of organizational data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff/employee records
Family and guardian information
Enrollment data
Potentially financial and donor records

What the group claims

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools is committed to building an anti-racist, pro-Black community to improve equitable outcomes for all Black and Brown scholars, ensuring our scholars graduate “college ready” with pride in their racial, cultural, and personal identities.

Sources

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Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 10, 2023Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Education sector, which has 1,085 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Alliance Virgil Roberts Leadership Academy 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 Snatch'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.