Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 155 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 23, 2026Marion Military Institute listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Marion Military Institute 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.

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Marion Military Institute

Claimed by worldleaks · listed 2 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Marion Military Institute (MMI) is a two-year public military junior college located in Marion, Alabama, founded in 1842 and recognized as the oldest military junior college in the United States. MMI is one of five US military junior colleges offering a direct commission pathway into the US Army and provides academic programs alongside military science and leadership education. It is ranked the #1 Community College in Alabama by Niche and reports a 90% student success rate with a 14:1 student-to-teacher ratio.

Industry: Military Junior College Education
Address: 1101 Washington St., Marion, AL 36756
Founded: 1842

Attack summary

Severity: high — MMI is a public military institution affiliated with the US Army commissioning pipeline, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes PII of cadets, staff, and prospective military officers, as well as potentially sensitive institutional and financial records. The data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release, elevating severity; however, the absence of confirmed regulated medical or large-scale government/defence data prevents a critical rating.

The worldleaks group has disclosed data purportedly obtained from Marion Military Institute, with the post marked as data_published, indicating exfiltrated data has been released. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Employee records
Admissions data
Financial aid information
Academic records
Institutional research data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Marion Military Institute (MMI), located in Marion, Alabama, is a two-year public military junior college. It is one of the five US military junior colleges that offer a direct commission into the US Army after a two-year course of study. Aside from military science and leadership education, MMI also offers a wide range of academic courses. Founded in 1842, it's the oldest military junior college in the United States.

Sources

Victim sitewww.marionmilitary.edu
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/2109793778

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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