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Harrison County Commission

listed as harrisoncountywv.com · Claimed by Safepay · listed 2 months ago

57d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 18, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Safepay
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
May 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Harrison County Commission is the primary governing authority of Harrison County, West Virginia, functioning as the executive administrative body responsible for public infrastructure, fiscal management, emergency services, and regional development. It oversees departments including planning and zoning, E911 emergency communications, parks and recreation, animal control, public safety, and county financial administration. The Commission also manages public records, budgeting, elections, and courthouse operations for the county.

Industry
County Government Administration
Address
301 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, US
Founded
1784

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a county government entity managing sensitive public-sector data including emergency communications (E911), financial records, election records, and personally identifiable resident information. Data is marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration of significant government data, though proof files are not yet linked.

The Safepay ransomware group claims to have attacked Harrison County Commission and has disclosed the compromise with data published status; the post indicates a download or proof link is forthcoming ('The link will be added soon'), suggesting exfiltration of government administrative data is claimed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Public records
  • Financial and budgeting documents
  • Election administration records
  • Emergency services (E911) data
  • Planning and zoning documents
  • Permit applications
  • Meeting agendas and ordinances
  • Annual reports
  • Courthouse operational records

What the group claims

The Commission functions as the executive administrative body for the county and is responsible for overseeing public infrastructure, fiscal management, …

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Harrison County Commission, the primary governing authority of Harrison County, West Virginia.
The Commission functions as the executive administrative body for the county and is responsible for overseeing public infrastructure, fiscal management, emergency services, and regional development initiatives.The Commission supervises numerous departments and public services, including planning and zoning, emergency communications (E911), parks and recreation, animal control, public safety coordination, and county financial administration. It also manages public records, budgeting processes, elections, and courthouse operations.Founded in a county established in 1784, the organization plays a central role in local governance and community development. Through its digital platform, residents can access meeting agendas, ordinances, annual reports, permit applications, and public service information.
The link will be added soon.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 612 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 18, 2026harrisoncountywv.com listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 612 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full safepay dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, harrisoncountywv.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means harrisoncountywv.com 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 safepay'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.