Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 1, 2023Pea River Electric Cooperative listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 374 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pea River Electric Cooperative 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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Pea River Electric Cooperative

Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Aug 1, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Aug 1, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pea River Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, distribution electric utility headquartered in Ozark, Alabama. It provides electric service to members across portions of Barbour, Dale, Henry, and Coffee counties in Alabama. The cooperative also offers fiber broadband services under the Pea River Broadband brand.

Industry: Electric Utility Cooperative
Address: 1311 W. Roy Parker Road, Ozark, AL 36360

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a critical infrastructure operator (electric utility cooperative) and the status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public disclosure of data. Compromise of a utility cooperative's data poses significant risks to member PII, operational continuity, and grid security.

Nokoyawa claims to have compromised Pea River Electric Cooperative and has published data from the attack. The leak post indicates data has been disclosed, though no specific ransom amount or data volume was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member account information
Billing and payment records
Service connection data
Employee/staff records
Operational utility data

What the group claims

Pea River Electric Cooperative is a service-oriented, distribution electric utility that is owned by the members it serves. Pea River Electric provides electric service to members in portions of Barbour, Dale, Henry and Coffee counties in Alabama. The headquarters office is located at 1311 W. Roy...

Sources

Victim sitepeariver.com
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/64c8f251f6451b16e059a5bb

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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