Ransomware victim disclosure

Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce

Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 3 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Nov 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1919 and headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. It serves as the principal advocate for the local business community, providing member services, networking, and economic development support across the greater Springfield region.

Industry: Chamber of Commerce / Business Advocacy (Non-Profit)
Address: Springfield, Missouri, United States
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1919

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, meaning exfiltration is complete. The organization holds PII and business records for a broad membership community, and public disclosure of those records represents significant harm to member businesses and individuals.

INC Ransom claims to have exfiltrated data from the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce and has published the data. The status 'data_published' indicates stolen files have been released on the group's leak site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member business records
Internal organizational documents
Contact and personnel information
Financial records
Correspondence

What the group claims

Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce is a private, not-for-profit organization. The organization serves as the principal advocate for...

Sources

Victim sitespringfieldchamber.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 836 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 23, 2023Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce 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.