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John H. Wellons Foundation, Inc.

listed as wellons.org · Claimed by Medusalocker · listed 3 years ago

33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusalocker
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Oct 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The John H. Wellons Foundation, Inc. is a North Carolina-based nonprofit organization founded in 1950 that provides affordable and accessible housing for seniors and physically handicapped individuals. Operating multiple properties across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, the foundation serves vulnerable populations seeking safe, care-free living arrangements.

Industry
Senior Housing & Affordable Housing Services
Address
2004 W. Cumberland Street, Dunn, North Carolina 28334
Founded
1950

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of employee information and 15+ years of organizational email/communications. The victim serves vulnerable seniors; compromise of customer data poses significant privacy and safety risk. Data published with ransomed pricing demonstrates active exploitation.

MedusaLocker claims to have exfiltrated employee information, agreements, customer email files (.xls), and 15+ GB of Outlook PST messages spanning 2006–2023. The group is asking $55,000 ransom and has published the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee information
  • Agreements
  • Customer email files
  • Outlook PST messages (2006–2023)
  • 15+ GB email archive

What the group claims

Descriptionemployee information – agreement – customer email(.xls)- pst files 15+GB all outlook message 2006-2023 year Price: 55000$

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About medusalocker

MedusaLocker is a ransomware operation first publicly documented around 2019, though the activity cluster reflected in this dataset shows observed campaigns beginning in November 2022, driven primarily by financial motivation with no known ideological or hacktivist agenda. The group is believed to operate out of or with ties to Eastern Europe, functioning as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model that allows affiliates to deploy the ransomware in exchange for a share of ransom proceeds, a structure documented in a joint advisory published by CISA, FBI, FinCEN, and HHS in June 2022. MedusaLocker actors typically gain initial access through phishing emails, exploitation of vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol configurations, and compromised network devices, subsequently deploying the ransomware payload which encrypts victim files using AES-256 combined with RSA-2048 encryption while also exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption to enable double extortion pressure. Based on available telemetry, the group has claimed at least 67 known victims, with targeting concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, and Israel, spanning sectors including business services, manufacturing, technology, and education, consistent with the opportunistic rather than highly selective targeting pattern characteristic of RaaS affiliate programs. As of the time of writing, MedusaLocker remains an active threat with no confirmed law enforcement disruption, takedown operation, or confirmed rebrand publicly attributed to the group by major intelligence or law enforcement agencies. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post July 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 23, 2023wellons.org listed by medusalockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by medusalocker

medusalocker has been linked to 78 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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If your organisation is affected

A listing by medusalocker means wellons.org 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 medusalocker'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.