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Stratford School Academy

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 2 years ago

22m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 8, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Sep 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Stratford School Academy is a mixed, all-ability, non-faith secondary school located in the borough of Newham, London. It serves a diverse local community and emphasizes inclusive, excellence-focused education with a broad curriculum including arts, sciences, languages, and pastoral support.

Industry
Secondary Education
Address
Newham, London, United Kingdom
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: medium — School data breaches involve minors' PII and safeguarding records (regulated under GDPR and UK education law), making this sensitive. However, no proof files are advertised, no exfiltration is explicitly confirmed, and the post is essentially placeholder text with no substantive claim details.

Rhysida claims to have compromised Stratford School Academy. The leak post provides only a brief description copied from the school's public website with no details of what data was accessed or encryption status.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student records
  • staff records
  • financial data
  • safeguarding documentation

What the group claims

Stratford School Academy We are a mixed, all ability, and non-faith school. Our purpose is to educate all the children in our diverse local community.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 282 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 8, 2024Stratford School Academy listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 282 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Stratford School Academy is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Stratford School Academy 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Rhysida'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.