Was Lake Washington School District hit by ransomware?

Lake Washington School District was listed by the CMD ORGANIZATION 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 CMD ORGANIZATION ransomware group?

CMD ORGANIZATION 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 Lake Washington School District breach?

CMD ORGANIZATION published data attributed to Lake Washington School District (~59 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Lake Washington School District

Claimed by CMD ORGANIZATION · listed 3 months ago

59 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: CMD ORGANIZATION
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jun 1, 2026
Data size: 59 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lake Washington School District is a public education authority established in 1914, administering 33 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools across Kirkland, Redmond, and half of Sammamish, Washington. The district serves as the planning and management body for public education in these communities.

Industry: Public Education
Address: Redmond, Washington, US
Founded: 1914

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Public school district holds sensitive personally identifiable information on minors (students) and staff at scale. Exfiltration of 59 GB from an educational institution poses significant harm to children's privacy and safety, meeting critical threshold for regulated/sensitive data exposure.

CMD ORGANIZATION claims to have exfiltrated 59 GB of data from Lake Washington School District. The leak post includes descriptions of multiple other victims (law firm, medical practices, non-profits, religious organizations) along with their data volumes, suggesting a mass exfiltration campaign.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff personnel files
Financial/budget information
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Founded in 1914, Lake Washington School District is the administrative body responsible for planning and managing public education for 33 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools. It serves communities of Kirkland, Redmond and about half of Sammamish. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

IT Security organization est. 2026.
Founded in 1914, Lake Washington School District is the administrative body responsible for planning and managing public education for 33 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools. It serves communities of Kirkland, Redmond and about half of Sammamish. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. 
Lee Law Offices is a well-established law firm serving clients in North and South Carolina for over 30 years, specializing in personal injury, workers compensation, and social security disability cases. The firm is dedicated to advocating for individuals affected by auto accidents, workplace injuries, and other forms of negligence, ensuring that clients receive the compensation they deserve. With a no-fee guarantee, they focus on representing the best interests of their clients rather than insurance companies or corporations. 
Capital Family Physicians provides quality healthcare services for families, focusing on comprehensive care for all ages. They offer same-day appointments and a patient portal for convenient access to medical records and billing. The practice emphasizes pediatric services, ensuring that children's health is prioritized. Wi…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Lake Washington School District

Sources

Leak posthttp://cmdnkiqjije2tllr3biee2sjgj3i4robg2cbtilbnytdhh2wy3syrlyd.onion

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About CMD ORGANIZATION

CMD ORGANIZATION is a ransomware group first observed in May 2026, with financial gain assessed as the primary motivation based on available indicators. Due to the extremely limited public reporting on this group, comprehensive technical attribution and operational details have not yet been documented by major threat intelligence vendors or government agencies such as CISA or the FBI. Based on available data, CMD ORGANIZATION has recorded a single known victim, with targeting concentrated in the United States and focused on the engineering sector, suggesting either a nascent operation in its early stages or a highly selective targeting methodology. No publicly documented information is currently available regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, extortion tactics, tooling, or affiliations with other known threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems. No notable high-profile campaigns, law enforcement actions, or confirmed rebranding activity has been publicly attributed to this group at this time. CMD ORGANIZATION should be considered an emerging or low-visibility threat actor warranting continued monitoring as additional victims or technical indicators may surface and enable more comprehensive profiling by the security research community. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post August 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 1, 2026Lake Washington School District listed by CMD ORGANIZATIONon the group's public leak site

Data size: 59 GB

Other recent disclosures by CMD ORGANIZATION

CMD ORGANIZATION has been linked to 18 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 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Lake Washington School District is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by CMD ORGANIZATION means Lake Washington School District 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 CMD ORGANIZATION'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.