Was Battle Creek Public Schools hit by ransomware?

Battle Creek Public Schools was listed by the Rhysida ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Rhysida ransomware group?

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Battle Creek Public Schools

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 2 hours ago

1.08 TB

Data size

5941 files records

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 25, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Rhysida
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Aug 25, 2026
Data size: 1.08 TB
Records: 5941 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Battle Creek Public Schools is a public school district in Nebraska providing educational services for students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Industry: Public Education
Address: Nebraska, US

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated sensitive data: PII of named minors (students) at scale, including special-education and disability records (protected under FERPA and ADA), discipline records, and federal education compliance documentation. Exposure of minors' identifiable educational and health information represents critical risk.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated student records including IEP/special-education files, disability determination notices, discipline/suspension records, and federal funds compliance documentation (ESSA/Title I applications) and staff health-spending claims.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records of named minors
IEP/special-education files
Disability determination notices
Discipline/suspension records
Federal funds compliance trail (ESSA/Title I)
Staff health-spending claims (payflex/EHA)

What the group claims

Public school district in Nebraska providing educational services for students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

CRI Electric is a veteran-owned business based in San Antonio, providing professional electrical services since 1998. They cater to both residential and commercial clients, offering services such as emergency electrical repairs, EV charger installations, and home rewiring. **We are pleased to present:** Employee's federal account artifacts** (`HR-Confidential\Israel's Forms`): Login.gov personal recovery key (VA identity), TSP (retirement savings), ID.me, DoD DS Logon, PIEE (DoD contract payments)151 vendor W-9 forms** (SSN/EIN), payroll docs, HR-lawyer (privileged) correspondence, OSHA-adjacent injury/incident reports with photos.Public-sector bid pricing** (2025�2026: SAWS HQ EV charging, SAISD, NISD) � bid-competitiveness and Davis-Bacon certified-payroll context.Corporate docs (SDVOSB certification, Articles, bylaws, stock ledgers), QuickBooks financials, a Power of Attorney
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Data the group says was taken

student records of minors
IEP/special-ed files
disability determination notices
discipline/suspension records
federal funds compliance documents
staff health-spending claims

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Battle Creek Public Schools

Sources

Leak posthttp://rhysidafc6lm7qa2mkiukbezh7zuth3i4wof4mh2audkymscjm6yegad.onion/archive.php?last&auction

Source

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 294 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 25, 2026Battle Creek Public Schools listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.08 TB
Records: 5941 files

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 294 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 Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Battle Creek Public Schools is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Battle Creek Public Schools 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Rhysida'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.