Disclosure context

About Siegedsec

SiegedSec is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2023, primarily motivated by hacktivism with a strong focus on anti-Israeli sentiment rather than traditional financial gain through ransomware operations. The group appears to operate independently with suspected ideological motivations tied to pro-Palestinian activism, though their exact geographic origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, SiegedSec appears to focus on data theft and public exposure of sensitive information rather than encryption-based extortion, primarily targeting Israeli government entities through opportunistic attacks that exploit web application vulnerabilities and exposed credentials. The group has maintained a relatively low profile with 19 documented victims, almost exclusively targeting Israeli government infrastructure in what appears to be coordinated ideological attacks rather than broad financial campaigns. Based on available reporting, SiegedSec remains active as of late 2023 and early 2024, continuing their focused campaign against Israeli targets through data exfiltration and public disclosure operations. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 8, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 9, 2023Portland Government & United states government listed by Siegedsecon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Portland Government & United states government is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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City of Portland, Oregon

listed as Portland Government & United states government · Claimed by Siegedsec · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 9, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Siegedsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Dec 9, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The City of Portland is the municipal government of Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state. It provides a wide range of public services including infrastructure, public safety, utilities, and community programs to approximately 650,000 residents. The city operates under a council-manager form of government and serves as the county seat of Multnomah County.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, OR 97204, United States
Employees: 5001-10000
Founded: 1851

Attack summary

Severity: high — SiegedSec is a known hacktivist group with a history of publishing exfiltrated government data. The disclosed status is data_published against a municipal government target, suggesting confirmed data exfiltration of potentially sensitive public-sector records, though the limited leak post detail prevents a critical rating.

SiegedSec claims to have exfiltrated data from the City of Portland and, broadly, United States government systems; the post is categorised as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released, though the leak post content is minimal and no ransom was demanded.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government records
Internal documents
Potentially citizen PII

What the group claims

governmental

Sources

Victim siteportlandoregon.gov

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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