Was Colonial Presbyterian Church hit by ransomware?

Colonial Presbyterian Church was listed by the pear 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 pear ransomware group?

pear 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 Colonial Presbyterian Church breach?

pear published data attributed to Colonial Presbyterian Church. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Colonial Presbyterian Church

Claimed by Pear · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Colonial Presbyterian Church is a non-denominational Presbyterian congregation operating two campuses — one in Overland Park, Kansas and one in South Kansas City, Missouri. The church offers Sunday worship services, preschool programs, discipleship groups, and community outreach ministries. It is a mid-to-large congregation serving the greater Kansas City metro area.

Industry: Religious Organizations
Address: 12501 W 137th St, Overland Park, KS; 9500 Wornall Rd, South Kansas City, MO

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), meaning exfiltration and public release of internal records has occurred. Church data likely includes PII of congregants (names, contact details, donation records, potentially minors via preschool/youth programs), constituting significant sensitive personal data exposure.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims an attack on Colonial Presbyterian Church with a disclosed data-published status, indicating exfiltration of internal data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal church records
Congregation member data
Staff/employee information
Financial/donation records
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Colonial Presbyterian Church operates two campuses in Overland Park and South Kansas City

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Colonial Presbyterian Church

Sources

Victim sitecolonialkc.org
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/colonialkc

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 105 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 10, 2026Colonial Presbyterian Church listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 105 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Colonial Presbyterian Church is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Colonial Presbyterian Church 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 pear'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.