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Fannin Central Appraisal District

listed as Fannin CAD · Claimed by Exitium · listed 4 months ago

400 GB
Data size
3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 17, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Exitium
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Mar 17, 2026
Data size
400 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fannin Central Appraisal District (Fannin CAD) is a Texas government agency responsible for appraising property values for tax purposes within Fannin County, Texas. It serves local taxing entities and property owners in the county seat of Bonham and surrounding areas. As a county appraisal district, it maintains property ownership records, valuation data, and related taxpayer information.

Industry
Government Tax Assessment & Appraisal
Address
831 W. State Hwy 56, Bonham, TX 75418, United States
Employees
10-50

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A county appraisal district holds large volumes of PII at scale including taxpayer names, addresses, property ownership and financial records for all county residents. 400 GB of exfiltrated and published data from a government entity with regulated PII constitutes a critical disclosure.

The exitium ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 400 GB of data from Fannin Central Appraisal District and has published the data. No ransom amount was stated and no encryption claim was explicitly made.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Property ownership records
  • Property valuation data
  • Taxpayer personal information
  • County financial/assessment records
  • Internal government documents

What the group claims

Zoominfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/pic/fannin-central-appraisal-district/1117264519 Exfiltrated: 400 GB of data

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About exitium

Exitium is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in March 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited but documented attack patterns. Given the recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about the group's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations remain unclear to security researchers and law enforcement agencies. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented due to their recent appearance and small victim count, though they appear to target specific sectors rather than conducting widespread campaigns. Exitium has been observed targeting organizations in the United States and Brazil, with a particular focus on the agriculture and food production sector as well as public sector entities, suggesting possible strategic targeting of critical infrastructure. The group remains active as of their recent emergence, though their limited victim count of two documented cases indicates they are either highly selective in their targeting, newly operational, or operating at a smaller scale compared to established ransomware groups. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 17, 2026; most recent post June 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 17, 2026Fannin CAD listed by exitiumon the group's public leak site
Data size
400 GB

Other recent disclosures by exitium

exitium has been linked to 10 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full exitium 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, Fannin CAD is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by exitium means Fannin CAD 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 exitium'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.