Was Beacon Mutual Insurance hit by ransomware?

Beacon Mutual Insurance was listed by the INC Ransom 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 INC Ransom ransomware group?

INC Ransom 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 Beacon Mutual Insurance breach?

INC Ransom published data attributed to Beacon Mutual Insurance (~275 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Beacon Mutual Insurance

Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 4 months ago

275 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 31, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jan 31, 2026
Data size: 275 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Beacon Mutual Insurance Company is the primary workers' compensation insurer for Rhode Island businesses, also operating in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The company provides workers' compensation insurance policies, claims management, and related services to employers across the region. It is headquartered in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Industry: Workers' Compensation Insurance
Address: Warwick, RI, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The leak involves confirmed exfiltration and publication of 275 GB of regulated sensitive data at scale, including Social Security Numbers, medical records tied to workers' compensation claims, PII of employees and claimants, and financial records — spanning multiple categories of HIPAA-adjacent and PII-regulated data affecting an insurance company's full client and employee base.

INC Ransom claims to have exfiltrated approximately 275 GB (296 GB uncompressed) of highly sensitive internal data from Beacon Mutual Insurance Company, including employee PII, policyholder databases, medical records tied to workers' compensation claims, financial statements, and system backups. The group has published the data as a disclosed leak.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal corporate documents and correspondence
Financial statements and reports (2018–2025)
Employee list with personal details
Confidential agreements, NDAs, and vendor contracts
Workers' compensation claims data
Injury reports
Medical records tied to claims
Client/policyholder database
Insurance policies and payment history
PII of employees, claimants, and insured workers (names, SSNs, addresses, DOBs, contact details)
Training materials and internal manuals
Compliance and safety documentation
System backups and database dumps

What the group claims

MAJOR DATA LEAK – Beacon Mutual Insurance Company EXPOSED: 275 GB (296,228,795,086 bytes) of highly sensitive internal data Beacon Mutual Insurance Company (Warwick, RI) – the primary workers' compensation insurer for Rhode Island businesses (also operating in MA & CT) – has suffered a massive data compromise. The leaked archive contains approximately 275 GB of uncompressed/internal files and includes the following categories of highly confidential information: Internal corporate documents and correspondence Complete financial statements and reports (2018–2025) Full employee list with personal details Confidential agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, and partnership documents Detailed claims data: workers' compensation payouts, injury reports, medical records tied to claims Client / policyholder database: business information, insurance policies, payment history Personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals (employees, claimants, insured workers) – names, SSNs, addresses, dates of birth, contact details, etc. Training materials, internal manuals, compliance & safety documentation Multiple system backups and database dumps …and much more internal operational content

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 853 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 31, 2026Beacon Mutual Insurance listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Data size: 275 GB

Other recent disclosures by INC Ransom

INC Ransom has been linked to 853 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 Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Beacon Mutual Insurance is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by INC Ransom means Beacon Mutual Insurance 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 INC Ransom'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.