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Southold Town Senior Services / Southold Police Department

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 2 months ago

1.7 TB
Data size
767,693 files records
58d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 18, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
May 18, 2026
Data size
1.7 TB
Records
767,693 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Town of Southold is a local government municipality located in Suffolk County, New York. It provides a range of public services including forms and permits, online payments, tax records, and municipal administration. The Southold Police Department and Senior Services department operate under this town government.

Industry
Local Municipal Government
Address
Town Hall, 53095 Route 25, PO Box 1179, Southold, NY 11971

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 1.7 TB of data across 767,693 files from a police department and senior services agency has been fully published publicly, representing confirmed exfiltration of likely PII at scale, law enforcement records, and potentially sensitive records of elderly residents — all regulated/sensitive categories.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated 1.7 TB of data (767,693 files) from Southold Town Senior Services and the Southold Police Department, and states that all files have been uploaded to public access.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government administrative records
  • Police department files
  • Senior services records
  • Resident personal information
  • Town permit and forms data
  • Internal government documents

What the group claims

The Town of Southold, New York provides various government services including forms and permits, online payments, and notifications for residents. Southold Police Department operates in the local government industry.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Data Catalog: 9,3 Tb, 4 324 287 Files 
All files was uploaded to public access, data hunters, enjoy 
[Southold Town Senior ServicesSouthold Police Department](https://www.southoldtownny.gov)
The Town of Southold, New York provides various government services including forms and permits, online payments, and notifications for residents. Southold Police Department is a company that operates in the Local industry.
Data Catalog: 1,7 Tb, 767 693 Files 
All files was uploaded to public access, data hunters, enjoy 
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Data the group says was taken

  • government records

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months 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

  • May 18, 2026Southold Town Senior Services / Southold Police Department listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site
Data size
1.7 TB
Records
767,693 files

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 282 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Rhysida dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Southold Town Senior Services / Southold Police Department is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Southold Town Senior Services / Southold Police Department 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 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.