Was US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller hit by ransomware?

US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller was listed by the Snatch 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller breach?

Snatch published data attributed to US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller

Claimed by Snatch · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 26, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Jan 26, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This is not a legitimate victim record. The 'victim name' references the U.S. government and private individuals (Biden family, Rothschild, Rockefeller), not a company. The leak post names current and former U.S. government officials (President Biden, Secretary of Defense Austin, Secretary of State Blinken, CIA Director Burns) without substantive claims of data breach evidence.

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is an unsubstantiated listing/announcement with no verifiable proof files, no technical details of compromise, and no credible evidence of actual data exfiltration from a legitimate entity. The 'victim' claim is incoherent and appears to be disinformation rather than a genuine ransomware disclosure.

The Snatch group claims to possess private data allegedly related to U.S. government officials and prominent private individuals, with references to a Telegram channel for proof. No specific operational impact, data exfiltration details, or verifiable proof files are described in the post excerpt.

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What the group claims

More information in our telegram channel https://t.me/snatch_teamIf you are wary of downloading information from our portal, all of it is duplicated in the open in our telegram channel.Joseph (Joe) Robinett Biden Jr.(+ Bonus Hunter Biden )Lloyd James Austin IIIAntony John BlinkenWilliam Joseph BurnsKimberly

Sources

Leak posthttp://hl66646wtlp2naoqnhattngigjp5palgqmbwixepcjyq5i534acgqyad.onion/news.php?id=94daf822-9f55-48c9-8f34-dc63ef6e9445

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 26, 2024US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means US government (private data) +Rothschild&Rockefeller 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 Snatch'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.