Was ecsc.org hit by ransomware?

ecsc.org 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 ecsc.org breach?

INC Ransom published data attributed to ecsc.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc.

listed as ecsc.org · Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 5 months ago

$11.2M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 16, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jan 16, 2026
Ransom demanded: $11.2M
Estimated revenue: $11.2M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. (ECSC) is a statewide service and trade association representing electric cooperatives throughout South Carolina. It serves 18 consumer-owned electric cooperatives, one wholesale electric cooperative, one transmission cooperative, and one materials cooperative, collectively providing electricity to nearly 2 million South Carolinians across all 46 counties via approximately 75,000 miles of power lines. The association also advocates for rural electrification and administers energy efficiency, clean energy, and educational programs.

Industry: Electric Cooperative Services & Trade Association
Address: Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by INC Ransom against a critical energy infrastructure trade association serving nearly 2 million electricity customers; exfiltration of operational and member cooperative data from an energy-sector entity represents significant risk, though the specific regulated data categories are not fully enumerated in the available evidence.

INC Ransom claims to have attacked Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), with the group's post referencing $11.2 million in revenue as the ransom figure; the specific data types exfiltrated have not been enumerated in the leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Organizational data
Member cooperative records
Financial information

What the group claims

Website www.ecsc.org Revenue $11.2 million Industry Electricity, oil and gas Energy, utilities and waste Organizational structure Similar companies Company analytics About South Carolina Electric Cooperatives Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. is a statewide service and trade association representing electric cooperatives throughout the state. It serves 18 consumer-owned electric cooperatives, one wholesale electric cooperative, one transmission cooperative, and one materials cooperative. The association's mission is focused on providing electricity to nearly 2 million South Carolinians through an extensive network of power lines, as well as providing energy efficiency programs and clean energy initiatives. The association advocates for the electrification of rural areas and provides various resources, including educational programs and assistance in purchasing electric vehicles.

Sources

Victim siteecsc.org

Source

Indexed 5 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 16, 2026ecsc.org listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $11.2M

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

Geographically, ecsc.org 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 ecsc.org 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.