Was Comune di Battipaglia hit by ransomware?

Comune di Battipaglia was listed by the Medusa ransomware operation (Italy), 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 Medusa ransomware group?

Medusa 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 Comune di Battipaglia breach?

Medusa published data attributed to Comune di Battipaglia, around 30 Employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Comune di Battipaglia

Claimed by Medusa · listed 5 months ago

30 Employees

Records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusa
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Feb 14, 2026
Records: 30 Employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Comune di Battipaglia is the municipal government of Battipaglia, a city in the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy. It is responsible for local public administration, civil services, and urban management for a population of approximately 50,000 residents. As a public sector entity, it handles citizen records, permits, social services, and local regulatory functions.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: Piazza Aldo Moro, 84091 Battipaglia SA, Italy
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — The attack targets a municipal government with data_published status, strongly implying confirmed exfiltration of citizen PII and sensitive administrative records. Public sector entities hold regulated personal data at scale, and publication of such data causes direct harm to residents and government operations.

The Medusa ransomware group claims to have attacked Comune di Battipaglia and has published the data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of municipal records. The leak post content was not retrievable due to a CAPTCHA challenge, so specific claims about encryption or exact data categories could not be verified from the post itself.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Citizen personal records (PII)
Municipal administrative documents
Employee records
Financial/budget documents
Building permits and land registry data
Social services case files

What the group claims

The Comune di Battipaglia is the official municipal government of Battipaglia, a town in the Province of Salerno in the Campania region of southern Italy. As the local public administration, it oversees civic services, urban planning, public records, community programs, and administrative functions for the town’s residents, known as Battipagliesi. The municipality is led by a mayor and council, and its offices are based in Piazza Aldo Moro. Battipaglia is historically an agricultural and industrial centre, famous for its buffalo mozzarella and rich cultural traditions. The Comune’s website provides access to local services, news, governance information, and contact details for citizens and visitors. The company headquarters is located in Piazza Aldo Moro, 84091 Battipaglia (SA), Italia. 30 Employees

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Leak posthttp://xfv4jzckytb4g3ckwemcny3ihv4i5p4lqzdpi624cxisu35my5fwi5qd.onion/detail?id=4a9e6dc3d2bbd60a86ec059c9e86860e

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 14, 2026Comune di Battipaglia listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Records: 30 Employees

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Comune di Battipaglia is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Comune di Battipaglia 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Medusa'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.