Was Priests for Life hit by ransomware?

Priests for Life was listed by the Qilin 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 Qilin ransomware group?

Qilin 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 Priests for Life breach?

Qilin published data attributed to Priests for Life. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Priests for Life

Claimed by Qilin · listed 2 months ago

49d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 24, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Apr 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Priests for Life is a US-based Catholic non-profit organization whose stated mission is to end abortion in America by educating, equipping, and activating churches to pray, preach, and mobilize on pro-life issues. The organization operates a network of affiliated ministries, produces multimedia content, hosts prayer campaigns, and conducts international outreach. It is led by National Director Frank Pavone and maintains a broad donor and supporter base.

Industry: Religious Non-Profit / Pro-Life Advocacy

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group, indicating confirmed exfiltration. As a donor-funded religious non-profit, the organization likely holds PII including names, email addresses, and payment/financial data for a large donor and supporter base, elevating severity to high.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked Priests for Life and has published data (disclosed_status: data_published), though the leak post itself contains no detailed description of encryption, exfiltration scope, or specific data categories.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Donor personal information (names, email addresses, financial details)
Employee records
Internal organizational documents
Prayer campaign and supporter contact lists
Financial/audit records

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,935 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 24, 2026Priests for Life listed by Qilinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Qilin

Qilin has been linked to 1,935 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Priests for Life is reported in United States, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qilin means Priests for Life 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Qilin'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.