Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsForestdale
Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 9 days ago
Status timeline
- Listed
May 12, 2026
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Moneymessage
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- US
- Sector
- Child welfare services
- Listed on leak site
- May 12, 2026
- Data size
- 2TB
- Ransom demanded
- $40
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileForestdale is a nonprofit child welfare agency headquartered in Queens, New York, operating from three offices across Queens and Brooklyn. The organization provides foster care, adoption services, preventive family services, and community support programs targeting abused and neglected children and families in crisis. In 2020, Forestdale received a multimillion-dollar contract to expand services throughout Brooklyn.
- Industry
- Child Welfare Services & Foster Care
- Address
- Queens, New York, USA (also offices in Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn)
Attack summary
Severity: critical — The victim is a child welfare agency whose records almost certainly contain highly sensitive PII on minors, foster children, adoptees, and vulnerable families — a category of regulated and especially sensitive data. 2 TB of data has been published, constituting confirmed large-scale exfiltration of data pertaining to a protected population.Money Message claims to have exfiltrated approximately 2 TB of sensitive private data from Forestdale; data has been published via a download link on the group's leak site, with no encryption claim explicitly stated.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Sensitive private data (2 TB)
- Child welfare case records (inferred)
- Foster care and adoption records (inferred)
- Family and minor PII (inferred)
- Organizational/financial records (inferred)
What the group claims
Forestdale is a child welfare agency headquartered in Queens. In addition to ensuring the well-being of abused and neglected children through foster care and adoption services, Forestdale partners with schools, religious organizations, business owners, and community leaders to address the root causes of family crises. The three-and-a-half-acre campus includes open fields, a basketball court, and a JetBlue playground. In 2020, Forestdale received a multimillion-dollar contract to provide services throughout Brooklyn and open offices approximately half a mile from its original location in Brooklyn Heights. Forestdale operates from three offices to better serve families in Brooklyn and Queens.
The leak post
captured from the group's site```
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```Data the group says was taken
- Sensitive private data
Screenshot of the leak post
Sources
Source
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