Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 16, 2026Unknown listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Child Welfare & Social Services sector.

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Ransomware victim disclosure

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Forestdale

listed as Unknown · Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 16, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Moneymessage
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Child Welfare & Social Services
Listed on leak site: May 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Forestdale is a nonprofit child welfare agency headquartered in Queens, New York, providing foster care, adoption services, and family support programs. The organization partners with schools, religious organizations, and community leaders to address the root causes of family crises. It operates from three offices serving families across Brooklyn and Queens, with an annual revenue of approximately $40 million.

Industry: Child Welfare & Social Services
Address: Queens, New York (additional offices in Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn), NY, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a child welfare agency handling highly sensitive data on abused, neglected, and fostered children — among the most vulnerable populations. A claimed 2TB exfiltration of 'sensitive private data' from such an organization almost certainly encompasses regulated PII, child welfare records, and data on minors, warranting a critical severity classification.

The Moneymessage group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 2TB of sensitive private data from Forestdale, with the post indicating the data will be published ('Wait for data'), suggesting exfiltration has occurred but full release is pending.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Sensitive private data (2TB)
Child welfare records (inferred)
Foster care and adoption case files (inferred)
Family and minor PII (inferred)

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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