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1 ACT Driving Schools

Claimed by Killsecurity · listed 10 months ago

10m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 10, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Killsecurity
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 10, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

1 ACT Driving Schools (formerly 1 ACT DUI & Defensive Driving School) is a Georgia-based driving education company founded in 2011 with 7 locations across the Atlanta area. The company offers behind-the-wheel lessons, Driver's Ed (Joshua's Law), DUI/Risk Reduction courses, defensive driving classes, and road testing services. It is DDS-certified and court-approved, serving both teen and adult students.

Industry
Driving Education & Traffic Safety Schools
Address
Atlanta, GA, United States (7 locations around Atlanta)
Founded
2011

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published by the group, indicating some level of confirmed disclosure, but no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are provided in the leak post. The company collects student PII (including potentially minors and court-ordered DUI offenders), which elevates risk above low, but the absence of any proof, data inventory, or confirmed exfiltration details prevents a higher rating.

Killsecurity claims a data disclosure (status: data_published) against 1 ACT Driving Schools; no specific details about encryption or exfiltration methods are provided in the leak post, and no ransom amount or data size was stated.

medium

What the group claims

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Killsecurity

Killsecurity is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their global targeting pattern suggests a sophisticated operation. Based on available victim data, Killsecurity has compromised 276 organizations primarily across the United States, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, with a particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports from established security firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's recent emergence. Killsecurity appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their operations is limited by the lack of detailed technical documentation from reputable threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 277 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post May 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 10, 20251 ACT Driving Schools listed by Killsecurityon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Killsecurity

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, 1 ACT Driving Schools is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Killsecurity means 1 ACT Driving 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Killsecurity'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.