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YMCA of Western North Carolina

Claimed by Interlock · listed 8 days ago

7d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Interlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Consumer Services
Listed on leak site
Jul 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

YMCA of Western North Carolina operates seven fitness centers, a summer camp, youth sports programs, and is the state's largest provider of licensed school-age childcare. The organization serves the western North Carolina region with multiple locations including Asheville, Black Mountain, Hendersonville, and other communities, offering health & fitness, aquatics, youth programs, and community food assistance.

Industry
Fitness & Recreation Services / Youth Services & Childcare

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive personally identifiable information at scale (clients, employees, fingerprints) from a childcare provider, coupled with financial documents and incident records. The organization serves vulnerable populations (children) and handles regulated childcare data, elevating sensitivity.

The Interlock group claims to have exfiltrated confidential client information including complete document sets and fingerprints, contracts, employee personal data, and financial documents from YMCA of Western North Carolina. The group alleges security failures on the organization's part.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client personal information
  • fingerprints
  • contracts
  • incident records
  • employee personal data
  • financial documents

What the group claims

The YMCA of Western North Carolina operates seven fitness centers, a summer camp, dozens of food trucks, youth sports programs, and many other initiatives. They are also the state's largest provider of licensed school-age childcare. However, they don't ensure security and aren't responsible for it, and you can gain access to confidential client information (complete sets of documents, even fingerprints), contracts, and incidents (of which they have many!), as well as to employee personal data and financial documents.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 7, 2026YMCA of Western North Carolina listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 114 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Interlock dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, YMCA of Western North Carolina is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means YMCA of Western North Carolina 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 Interlock'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.