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Laurens School District 56

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

2.40 TB
Data size
118 employees records
16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 25, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusa
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Feb 25, 2025
Data size
2.40 TB
Records
118 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Laurens County School District 56 is a public school district serving approximately 2,800 students in Laurens County, South Carolina. The district operates five elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and a child development center from its administrative office in Clinton, SC.

Industry
Public Education
Address
100 Old Colony Rd, Clinton, SC 29325, United States
Employees
118

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Public school district with ~2,800 students; confirmed exfiltration of 2.40 TB suggests large-scale collection of student PII, educational records, and potentially staff/family data. Educational records of minors constitute highly regulated sensitive information.

Medusa claims to have exfiltrated 2.40 TB of data from the district. The group has published the data; no ransom demand is noted.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student records
  • employee information
  • administrative files
  • financial data

What the group claims

Laurens School District 56 is a school district in South Carolina (Laurens County) which has about 2,800 students. Laurens County School District 56 corporate office is located in 211 N Broad St, Clinton, South Carolina, 29325, United States and has 118 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 2.40 TB

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 25, 2025Laurens School District 56 listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site
Data size
2.40 TB
Records
118 employees

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Medusa dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Laurens School District 56 is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Laurens School District 56 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 Medusa'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.