Was hobokennj.gov hit by ransomware?

hobokennj.gov was listed by the Threeam 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 Threeam ransomware group?

Threeam 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 hobokennj.gov breach?

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

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hobokennj.gov

Claimed by Threeam · listed 2 years ago

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 4, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Threeam
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Dec 4, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Hoboken is a municipal government entity in New Jersey responsible for providing city services including public safety, infrastructure, parks, recreation, housing, community services, and administrative functions to residents and businesses.

Industry: Local Government Administration
Address: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from U.S. municipal government entity with published disclosure. Local government systems typically hold PII, tax records, and operational data affecting public services and residents.

The Threeam ransomware group claims to have attacked the City of Hoboken and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration scope, or data types are disclosed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

municipal records
city administration data
constituent information

What the group claims

City of Hoboken

Sources

Victim sitehobokennj.gov
Leak posthttp://threeamkelxicjsaf2czjyz2lc4q3ngqkxhhlexyfcp2o6raw4rphyad.onionpost.php?id=50

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Threeam

Threeam is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with 64 documented victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Threeam appears to employ common initial access vectors targeting organizations across business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Brazil representing their primary geographic focus areas. While specific technical details about their encryption methods and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their emergence in late 2023 and victim count suggests they have established operational capabilities within the competitive ransomware landscape. The group's current operational status remains active based on the recency of their emergence, though detailed law enforcement actions or disruption efforts have not been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other major security organizations. The group has been linked to 85 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 4, 2024hobokennj.gov listed by Threeamon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Threeam

Threeam has been linked to 85 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, hobokennj.gov is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Threeam means hobokennj.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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Threeam'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.