Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 109 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post May 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 3, 2025Providence Academy listed by Interlockon 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, Providence Academy 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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Providence Academy

Claimed by Interlock · listed 6 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 3, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 3, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Providence Academy is an independent, nonprofit Roman Catholic school located in Plymouth, Minnesota, serving approximately 900 students from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. The school offers a college-preparatory curriculum on a 42-acre campus and is ranked among the top 9% of private K-12 schools in the United States. It operates under Catholic educational principles and includes programs in academics, arts, and athletics.

Industry: Private K-12 Education
Address: 15100 Schmidt Lake Road, Plymouth, MN 55446
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The attack involved confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated PII at scale, specifically SSNs of minors (K-12 students), alongside employee records and financial documents, representing a serious breach of sensitive data affecting a vulnerable population.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated student databases containing personal information including Social Security Numbers, as well as financial documents and confidential employee data. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student personal information
Student Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Financial documents
Confidential employee data

What the group claims

Providence Academy was established as a private Christian school. The institution's staff demonstrated a disregard for their own security and that of all their students. As a result, all student databases were accessed, revealing all personal information, including SSNs. The most unsafe and unsafe job was the Chief IT Director! This is simply nonsense! Numerous financial documents and confidential employee data were also leaked.

Sources

Victim siteprovidenceacademy.org
Leak posthttp://pzbd27cw7pkctovnmfaoeldjf32bc63mwqwhcxcftkqntest2bkkuaid.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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