Was Alexander City, Alabama hit by ransomware?

Alexander City, Alabama was listed by the Losttrust 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 Losttrust ransomware group?

Losttrust 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 Alexander City, Alabama breach?

Losttrust published data attributed to Alexander City, Alabama. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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City of Alexander City, Alabama

listed as Alexander City, Alabama · Claimed by Losttrust · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Losttrust
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alexander City is a municipal government serving the largest city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, with a population of approximately 14,843 as of the 2020 census. The city government administers local public services, infrastructure, and community resources for its residents. The area is notable for Lake Martin and has a diversified local economy following a historical reliance on the textile industry.

Industry: Municipal Government
Address: 256 Green Street, Alexander City, Alabama 35010, United States
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data publication by the threat actor against a municipal government entity strongly implies exfiltration of government records which likely include PII of residents and city employees; government sector breaches with published data are classified as high given the public-trust and regulatory implications.

The Losttrust ransomware group claims an attack against the City of Alexander City, Alabama, with data published indicating confirmed exfiltration of municipal government data. No ransom amount or specific data volume has been stated, but the disclosed status indicates data has been published.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal government records
Resident/citizen data
City administrative documents
Employee records
Financial records

What the group claims

Alexander City, known to locals as "Alex City", is the largest city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States, with a population of 14,843 as of the 2020 census. It has been the largest community in Tallapoosa County since 1910. It is known for Lake Martin with its 750 miles (1,210 km) of wooded shoreline and 44,000 acres (18,000 ha) of water. Lake Martin stands on the Tallapoosa River and offers boating, swimming, fishing, golfing, and camping. Many neighborhoods and luxury homes are located on the lake. The city's economy was traditionally based on the textile industry, but in recent times its economic base has become more diversified as textile jobs have gone to India.

Sources

Victim sitealexandercityal.gov

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Losttrust

Losttrust is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting scope across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, with limited public reporting from established security firms regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service connections. Based on available victim data, Losttrust appears to employ opportunistic targeting methods, having compromised 53 known victims across diverse geographic regions including the United States, Italy, Germany, Argentina, and India, with particular focus on education, legal services, media organizations, food and agriculture companies, and government entities. The specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics employed by Losttrust have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence and limited visibility in established threat intelligence channels, their current operational status and activity levels remain unclear, though the breadth of their reported victim base suggests ongoing operations as of recent observations. The group has been linked to 53 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 26, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: LOST TRUST.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2023Alexander City, Alabama listed by Losttruston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Losttrust

Losttrust has been linked to 53 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Losttrust dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Alexander City, Alabama is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Losttrust means Alexander City, Alabama 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 Losttrust'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.