Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsBerkeley County Schools
Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Mar 11, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Vicesociety
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Government
- Listed on leak site
- Mar 11, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileBerkeley County Schools is the public school district serving Berkeley County, West Virginia. It oversees operations across 29 schools — including elementary, intermediate, middle, and high schools — and serves over 19,722 students. It is one of the larger public school districts in West Virginia.
- Industry
- K-12 Public Education
- Address
- 304 Hedgesville Road, Martinsburg, WV 25401, United States
- Employees
- 1001-5000
Attack summary
Severity: critical — The victim is a K-12 public school district with over 19,700 students; exfiltrated and published data almost certainly includes PII of minors (a protected class under FERPA and COPPA), as well as staff records, making this a critical-severity disclosure of regulated sensitive data at scale.Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from Berkeley County Schools, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released. No ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed in the post.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Student records
- Staff personnel files
- Administrative documents
- Potentially identifiable information for minors
What the group claims
Berkeley County Public Schools oversees all operations of the public schools in the county of Berkeley, West Virginia. They serve over 19 722 students at 29 elementary, intermediate, middle and high schools.
Sources
Source
Indexed 3 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
