Was The City of Cocoa hit by ransomware?

The City of Cocoa was listed by the INC Ransom 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 INC Ransom ransomware group?

INC Ransom 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 Cocoa breach?

INC Ransom published data attributed to The City of Cocoa. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The City of Cocoa

Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Feb 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Cocoa is a municipal government located in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It provides a range of public services to residents, businesses, and visitors, including water management, economic development, public safety, and community engagement initiatives. As a local government entity, it administers city departments and maintains public infrastructure and environmental stewardship.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: City Hall, 65 Stone Street, Cocoa, FL 32922, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a U.S. municipal government (public sector); data published status confirms exfiltration has occurred, which likely includes PII of residents, utility/water management records, and potentially sensitive law enforcement or financial data at a community scale — meeting the threshold for critical severity.

INC Ransom claims to have attacked The City of Cocoa and has published data ('data_published' status), indicating confirmed exfiltration of city data; the leak post does not specify the exact volume or nature of files stolen but references city-wide departmental operations.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

City departmental records
Water management data
Economic development program files
Resident and business information
Public safety records
Community engagement documents

What the group claims

The City of Cocoa offers diverse public services aimed at enhancing the quality of life for its community. Their services include water management, economic development programs, and various community engagement initiatives. Intended clients encompass local residents, businesses, and visitors who seek information and support from city departments. The city is also focused on maintaining public safety, health, and environmental stewardship.

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 853 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 23, 2026The City of Cocoa listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by INC Ransom

INC Ransom has been linked to 853 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 Cocoa is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by INC Ransom means The City of Cocoa 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 INC Ransom'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.