Was ENKA Schools hit by ransomware?

ENKA Schools was listed by the Doommageddon ransomware operation (Turkey), 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 Doommageddon ransomware group?

Doommageddon 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 ENKA Schools breach?

Doommageddon published data attributed to ENKA Schools. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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ENKA Schools

Claimed by Doommageddon · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 5, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Doommageddon
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ENKA Schools is a private coeducational day school in Istanbul, Turkey, serving approximately 1,250 students from pre-K to grade 12. The school is authorized as an IB World School offering the IB Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma Programs, and holds international accreditation from CIS and NEASC.

Industry: Private K-12 Education
Address: Sadi Gülçelik Spor Sitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Educational institution with ~1,250 students; data exfiltration of school records likely includes PII of minors and families, which is sensitive and regulated in most jurisdictions. Confirmed disclosure timeline indicates deliberate publication of exfiltrated data.

The Doommageddon group claims to have exfiltrated data from ENKA Schools. The leak post indicates data will be published after 2026-10-15, but does not specify what data was accessed or the nature of the breach.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

School records
Student/family information
Administrative data

What the group claims

Status: upcoming | Deadline: 2026-10-15T00:00:00Z

The leak post

captured from the group's site

ENKA Schools is a private coeducational, PK-12 day school located in Istanbul, Turkey. Since its establishment in 1996, Enka Schools in Istanbul, Turkey, has grown to accommodate approximately 1250[1] students from pre-k to grade 12. Located on 16 acres in the Sadi Gülçelik Spor Sitesi in the center of Istanbul's business district, the campus also houses the ENKA Foundation, the ENKA Culture and Arts Foundation, and the ENKA Sport Club with its significant athletic facilities. ENKA Schools is fully authorized by the IBO as an IB World School and is authorized to offer the IB Primary Years Program, IB Middle Years Program, and IB Diploma Program. ENKA Schools is internationally accredited by CIS and NEASC. enkaokullari.k12.tr
Available after 2026-10-15 00:00:00 UTC

Sources

Leak posthttp://iacjvmxjb2ivqkxxzmde4w6g53gn6ym7c3g6mfifvejyhqtp4wrkypyd.onion/victim/enka-schools

Source

Indexed 20 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Doommageddon

Doommageddon is a ransomware group first observed in July 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, though limited public documentation exists given the group's recent emergence and relatively small operational footprint to date. Based on available data, the group has claimed or been attributed responsibility for approximately five known victims, with targeting concentrated in Turkey, Brazil, India, and Paraguay, suggesting a broad, opportunistic geographic scope rather than a regionally focused operational mandate. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, consumer services, financial services, and technology, a diverse vertical spread consistent with an opportunistic or nascent RaaS model still establishing its targeting criteria; no confirmed affiliation with established threat actor clusters or nation-state sponsors has been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources at this time. Specific initial access vectors, tooling, and encryption methodologies employed by Doommageddon have not been publicly detailed in available open-source or vendor reporting, and no confirmed double or triple extortion data leak site has been publicly attributed to the group by credible researchers. Given the group's first observation date of July 2026 and the very limited victim count, Doommageddon should be assessed as an emerging or low-maturity threat actor whose tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented, and analysts should treat any further attribution or capability claims with appropriate caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group's current operational status cannot be definitively assessed beyond confirmation of initial activity in mid-2026. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 6, 2026; most recent post October 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 5, 2026ENKA Schools listed by Doommageddon on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Doommageddon

Doommageddon has been linked to 16 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 Education sector, which has 1,088 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ENKA Schools is reported in Turkey, a country with 31 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Doommageddon means ENKA Schools 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 Doommageddon'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.