Was shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk hit by ransomware?

shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk was listed by the Incransom ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Incransom ransomware group?

Incransom 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 shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk breach?

Incransom published data attributed to shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Shaw Hill Primary School

listed as shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk · Claimed by Incransom · listed 5 months ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jan 27, 2026
Ransom demanded: $5M
Estimated revenue: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shaw Hill Primary School is a state primary school located in Birmingham, United Kingdom, serving children in the local community. The school offers a broad curriculum including core subjects and extracurricular activities, with a focus on academic excellence, safeguarding, and personal development. It is led by headteacher Mr N. Bhatti and is overseen by a governing board, with an Ofsted inspection on record from 2017.

Industry: Primary Education
Address: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Employees: 24

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a primary school handling children's data including safeguarding, SEND, and family records — all highly regulated and sensitive categories under UK GDPR and the Children Act. Data is marked as published, meaning exfiltration and public disclosure of records relating to minors has occurred.

The Incransom group claims to have attacked Shaw Hill Primary School and has published data ('data_published' status), though no specific data volume is stated. The $5M figure appears to reference the school's revenue rather than a ransom demand, given the school's scale.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff records
Safeguarding documents
SEND information
Financial information
Parent and family data
Governor and school governance records
Privacy notices

What the group claims

Shaw Hill Primary School is dedicated to providing a high-quality education in a supportive and nurturing environment. They focus on developing students' knowledge, skills, and personal growth, preparing them to be successful citizens in modern Britain. The school promotes strong relationships with families and the community while prioritizing student safety and well-being. Their comprehensive curriculum incorporates various subjects and extracurricular activities to stimulate and challenge the children Employees: 24 Revenue: $5 Million Industry: Education Phone Number: +44 8000283550

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Incransom

Incransom is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations as evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple developed nations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model. With 734 documented victims, Incransom has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, with particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers or government agencies. The group's notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources, suggesting either operational security effectiveness or limited visibility into their most significant operations. Based on available intelligence, Incransom appears to remain active as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status requires additional documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 829 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 9, 2023; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 27, 2026shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 829 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 Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means shawhillprimaryschool.org.uk 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Incransom'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.