Disclosure context

About BLACK WATER

BLACK WATER is a ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its full operational scope remains limited based on currently available public intelligence. Given the recency of its emergence and the extremely limited victim count of one known case, the group has not yet been the subject of detailed public reporting by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or comparable security research bodies, and its country of origin, group affiliations, and operational structure — including whether it operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed group — remain undetermined at this time. The group's known targeting pattern indicates a focus on the non-profit and housing services sector, which may suggest opportunistic targeting of organizations with limited cybersecurity resources rather than a strategically motivated sector-specific campaign, though this assessment is tentative given the single observed victim. No specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or extortion tactics have been documented in open-source intelligence reporting as of this profile's preparation. With only one confirmed victim and a first observation date of May 2026, BLACK WATER should be considered an emerging or nascent threat actor requiring continued monitoring; its current operational status cannot be definitively characterized as active, dormant, or rebranded pending further corroborating intelligence from law enforcement or security research communities. The group has been linked to 1 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: blackwater.

Timeline of this disclosure

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

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 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Compass Housing Alliance

Claimed by BLACK WATER · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 14, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: BLACK WATER
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

Leak posthttp://ejzl7cjxmkx7lzhiqwidmrwtfjv45pkczbc4fnyaut3t7gll3yaiq5id.onion

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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