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The Salvation Army

Claimed by Chaos · listed 1 year ago

13m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 27, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Chaos
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
May 27, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Salvation Army is a Christian charitable organization established in 1865, operating as a global movement across 134 countries. It provides comprehensive social services including disaster relief, food assistance, shelter for the homeless, medical and educational support, and community development programs.

Industry
Charitable Services & Social Welfare
Address
101 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4EH, England
Founded
1865

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only an announcement of forthcoming data release with no proof files, technical evidence, or specifics about data exfiltration or encryption. No operational impact stated.

The chaos group claims to have attacked The Salvation Army and states that data will be released soon, but provides no details on what was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor any proof of the breach.

low

What the group claims

Data will be released soon. 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

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About chaos

Based on the limited publicly available information, Chaos is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their ransom demands and targeting patterns. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational model and whether they operate as Ransomware-as-a-Service or as an independent entity has not been definitively established by security researchers. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities are not yet well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting suggests they employ common initial access vectors to compromise victims across multiple sectors. Chaos has claimed 41 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, and Sweden, with a particular focus on technology companies, financial services, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though the scope and impact of their most significant attacks have not been widely publicized. The group currently appears to be active based on recent victim claims, though comprehensive analysis from major security firms regarding their long-term operational capabilities and potential law enforcement actions remains limited due to their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 69 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 31, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 27, 2025The Salvation Army listed by chaoson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by chaos

chaos has been linked to 69 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full chaos dossier →

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 chaos 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 chaos'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.