Was gatewaycsb.org hit by ransomware?

gatewaycsb.org was listed by the kawa4096 ransomware operation (United States), 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 kawa4096 ransomware group?

kawa4096 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 gatewaycsb.org breach?

kawa4096 published data attributed to gatewaycsb.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Gateway Community Service Board

listed as gatewaycsb.org · Claimed by Kawa4096 · listed 1 year ago

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Kawa4096
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Jul 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gateway Community Service Board is a public community-based organization and instrumentality of the State of Georgia serving eight counties (Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, Liberty, Chatham, Bryan, Long, and Effingham). The organization provides comprehensive community services for mental health, substance use disorders, and developmental disorders, including residential programs, community living supports, and supported employment services.

Industry: Community Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Services
Address: 7395 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Savannah, GA 31406

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim organization handles Protected Health Information (PHI) and medical records for vulnerable populations (mental health, substance use, developmental disorder clients). Confirmed data publication status combined with PHI exposure at a state-level public health service constitutes high severity under regulated data exfiltration criteria, despite limited detail in the leak post itself.

The kawa4096 group claims to have breached gatewaycsb.org. The leak post provides minimal detail; disclosed status indicates data has been published, though no specific claims about exfiltration methods, data scope, or ransom demand are articulated in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Protected Health Information (PHI)
Medical records
Patient personal health data
Organizational records

What the group claims

gatewaycsb.org

Sources

Victim sitegatewaycsb.org

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About kawa4096

kawa4096 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in June 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has been documented attacking victims primarily in the United States, Japan, and Germany, with a focus on healthcare, financial services, and public sector organizations, suggesting a strategic approach to maximize potential ransom payments. With 17 known victims identified since their emergence, kawa4096 appears to be a relatively small but active operation, though limited public documentation from major security firms and law enforcement agencies means specific details about their attack methodology, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unknown. The group's targeting of critical sectors including healthcare and government entities indicates they may employ double extortion tactics common among modern ransomware operators, though their specific technical capabilities and initial access methods have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources. Given the recent timeline of their observed activity beginning in mid-2025, kawa4096 appears to be currently active, though the limited intelligence available suggests they may be either a new independent operation or a smaller affiliate group that has not yet attracted significant law enforcement attention or detailed analysis from major cybersecurity researchers. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 27, 2025; most recent post July 29, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 7, 2025gatewaycsb.org listed by kawa4096on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by kawa4096

kawa4096 has been linked to 17 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, gatewaycsb.org is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by kawa4096 means gatewaycsb.org 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 kawa4096'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.