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Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg

Claimed by Abyss · listed 3 months ago

132GB uncompressed
Data size
2m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 2, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Abyss
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
Germany
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Jun 2, 2026
Data size
132GB uncompressed

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg is the district administration of Limburg-Weilburg County in Hesse, Germany. With approximately 950 employees, it provides a wide range of public services including education, health coordination, social services, and infrastructure management to residents across the district.

Industry
Local Government Administration
Address
Limburg-Weilburg County, Hesse, Germany
Employees
950

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 132 GB from a local government entity handling sensitive citizen data, education, health coordination, and financial records. Government institutions manage PII at scale (residents, employees, students) and administrative data with regulatory obligations under GDPR.

The Abyss group claims to have exfiltrated 132 GB of uncompressed data from the district administration. The group states 'password and data will be published later,' indicating a dual-encryption/exfiltration attack with threatened public disclosure.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government administrative records
  • Personnel data
  • Educational administration files
  • Financial records
  • Citizen service records

What the group claims

The district administration of Limburg-Weilburg County in the state of Hesse, Germany. The organization performs local government functions and is responsible for a wide range of public services for the district's residents.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
```
let data = [
{
        'title' : 'School Facility Consultants',
        'short' : 's-f-c.org 1.3Tb uncompressed data',
        'full' : 'School Facility Consultants <br>' +
                 'School Facility Consultants (SFC) is a full-service company that provides expert guidance in school facility planning and funding for School Districts, County Offices of Education, and Charter Schools across California.<br>'+
            'password and data will be published later <br>'+
            'Link â„–1 Filelist',
        'links' : [

        ]
},
{
        'title' : 'landkreis-limburg-weilburg.de',
        'short' : 'landkreis-limburg-weilburg.de 132Gb uncompressed data',
        'full' : 'Kreisvolkshochschule Limburg-Weilburg e.V. <br>' +
                 'The district administration of Limburg-Weilburg County in the state of Hesse, Germany. The organization performs local government functions and is responsible for a wide range of public services for the district\'s residents.<br>'+
            'password and data will be published later <br>'+
            'Link â„–1 Filelist',
        'links' : [

        ]
},
{
        'title' : 'technic.com',
        'short' : 'technic.com ',
   …

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Abyss

Abyss is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on English-speaking countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Their attack methodology and specific tools have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their victim profile of 87 organizations indicates they employ effective initial access techniques to compromise business services, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. The group demonstrates a clear geographic preference for targets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, suggesting either language preferences or specific regional access capabilities. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation from established security researchers, detailed information about notable campaigns, encryption methods, or law enforcement actions remains scarce. Abyss appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the lack of extensive public analysis by major threat intelligence organizations suggests they may operate at a smaller scale compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2023; most recent post June 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 2, 2026Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg listed by Abysson the group's public leak site
Data size
132GB uncompressed

Other recent disclosures by Abyss

Abyss has been linked to 103 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg is reported in Germany, a country with 383 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Abyss means Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Abyss'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.