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Compass Housing Alliance

Claimed by Blackwater · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 14, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Blackwater
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Non-profit / Housing Services
Listed on leak site
May 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Compass Housing Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and providing essential services, emergency shelter, and affordable housing to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness or housing instability. The organization operates within the community-services sector, working to ensure safe and stable housing access for vulnerable populations. Based on its name and mission, it is likely located in the Pacific Northwest United States, consistent with known organizations of this name.

Industry
Non-profit Housing & Homeless Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The threat actors claim possession of client data from a housing and homeless-services non-profit, whose clientele are likely vulnerable individuals whose records may include PII, social service case files, and sensitive personal circumstances — constituting regulated/sensitive data at scale with a credible publication threat.

The BLACK WATER ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated confidential internal company data as well as personal data belonging to all clients, with two onion-hosted data dumps linked in the post and a 7-day deadline before full publication.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Confidential internal company data
  • Client personal data
  • Internal reports
  • Development documents

What the group claims

Compass Housing Alliance is dedicated to developing and providing essential services, shelter, and affordable housing to ensure that everyone in the community has a safe place to call home.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Compass Housing Alliance is dedicated to developing and providing essential services, shelter, and affordable housing to ensure that everyone in the community has a safe place to call home. 
confidential information, developments, reports and all internal company data : http://ucfhnoihzgx4wz4beyzfxnh46cs37r4zbq627xyctykpatruvmghbyqd.onion/s/e292180d38d92fe2/ 
Data will be published after 7 days. 
all internal and confidential company data and data of all clients: http://ucfhnoihzgx4wz4beyzfxnh46cs37r4zbq627xyctykpatruvmghbyqd.onion/s/6faa99933c9fef57/

Data the group says was taken

  • confidential information
  • internal company data
  • developments
  • reports
  • client data

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Compass Housing Alliance

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About blackwater

Based on the limited available data, Blackwater is an obscure ransomware operation that first emerged in April 2026, with only one documented victim to date, suggesting either a very new or small-scale financially motivated cybercriminal group. The group appears to operate primarily in Turkey, specifically targeting the healthcare sector based on their singular known attack. Due to the extremely limited public documentation and recent emergence timeframe, detailed information about their attack methodology, tools, encryption techniques, or operational structure remains unavailable from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. No notable high-profile campaigns, significant ransoms, or law enforcement actions have been publicly documented against this group. Given the recent April 2026 first observation date and lack of comprehensive threat intelligence reporting, the current operational status and capabilities of Blackwater remain largely unknown to the broader cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 9 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 12, 2026; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: BLACK WATER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 14, 2026Compass Housing Alliance listed by blackwateron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blackwater

blackwater has been linked to 9 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 Non-profit / Housing Services sector. Geographically, Compass Housing Alliance is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackwater means Compass Housing Alliance appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 blackwater'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.