Was The Salvation Army hit by ransomware?

The Salvation Army was listed by the Interlock 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 Interlock ransomware group?

Interlock 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 The Salvation Army breach?

Interlock published data attributed to The Salvation Army. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Salvation Army

Claimed by Interlock · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 24, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Dec 24, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Salvation Army is an international Christian charitable organization founded in 1865, operating in 134 countries. It provides a wide range of social services including food assistance, disaster relief, shelter for the homeless, support for the disabled and elderly, and programs for underprivileged children. Its international headquarters is registered in England and Wales, with a global presence managed through territorial and national commands.

Industry: Non-Profit Social Services & Religious Organization
Address: 101 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4EH, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status) by the threat actor against a large international non-profit that holds sensitive PII of vulnerable populations including disaster victims, homeless individuals, children, and the disabled. The scale of the organization (134 countries) and the sensitive nature of beneficiary data elevates this above medium, though the absence of confirmed regulated medical or financial data specifics and lack of stated data volume prevents a critical classification

The Interlock ransomware group claims an attack on The Salvation Army's systems, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. The leak post does not specify the volume of data or specific data types stolen, but the organization's scale and social-services mandate suggest exposure of beneficiary and operational records.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal organizational records
Potentially beneficiary personal data
Potentially employee/volunteer records
Operational and administrative documents

What the group claims

The Salvation Army, established in 1865, has been offering an array of social services that range from providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless and opportunities for underprivileged children.

Sources

Victim sitesalvationarmy.org
Leak posthttp://ihbpu7nworzao2klqeeahnz7wcuavltny3p2cmfkhe5tko3vl3zcowyd.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 24, 2025The Salvation Army listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 114 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Salvation Army is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means The Salvation Army 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 Interlock'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.