Was meridenct.gov hit by ransomware?

meridenct.gov was listed by the Incransom 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 Incransom ransomware group?

Incransom 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 meridenct.gov breach?

Incransom published data attributed to meridenct.gov. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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City of Meriden, Connecticut

listed as meridenct.gov · Claimed by Incransom · listed 3 months ago

$23M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026
Ransom demanded: $23M
Estimated revenue: $23M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Meriden is a municipal government located in Meriden, Connecticut, serving local residents and visitors with government, business, recreational, educational, and transportation resources. It operates under the domain meridenct.gov and can be reached at (203) 630-4000. As a mid-sized Connecticut city government, it administers public services across multiple departments.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: City Hall, 142 East Main Street, Meriden, CT 06450, United States
Employees: 200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — This is a confirmed data publication (data_published) against a municipal government entity, which inherently holds regulated PII for residents, employees, and businesses at scale, including potentially sensitive law enforcement, financial, and social services data. Government sector breaches with published data meet the critical threshold.

The INC Ransom group claims to have attacked the City of Meriden, Connecticut, with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. The ransom demand listed is $23 million, coinciding with the city's stated annual revenue figure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government records
Resident personal information
Municipal administrative data
Business licensing records
Employee records

What the group claims

Meriden 2020 provides a variety of government, business, recreational, educational, and transportation resources for residents and visitors of Meriden, Connecticut (CT). Employees: 200 Revenue: $23 Million Industry: Government Phone Number: (203) 630-4000

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Incransom

Incransom is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations as evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple developed nations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model. With 734 documented victims, Incransom has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, with particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers or government agencies. The group's notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources, suggesting either operational security effectiveness or limited visibility into their most significant operations. Based on available intelligence, Incransom appears to remain active as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status requires additional documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 829 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 9, 2023; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 27, 2026meridenct.gov listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $23M

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 829 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 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, meridenct.gov is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means meridenct.gov 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 Incransom'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.