Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 109 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post May 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 1, 2026Odyssey Academy listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Odyssey Academy is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Odyssey Academy

Claimed by Interlock · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 1, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Feb 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Odyssey Academy is a free, open-enrollment public charter school operating three campuses in the South Houston/Galveston area of Texas (Galveston, Texas City, and Webster). Founded in 1999, the school serves over 1,500 students in Pre-K through 12th grade, with a STEAM-focused curriculum, college preparatory programs, and a 4-day instructional week.

Industry: K-12 Public Charter School Education
Address: 600 Gulf Freeway, Suite 110, Texas City, TX 77591, USA
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of data involving minors (student PII) and staff PII at a K-12 institution, combined with financial records — regulated sensitive data (FERPA-covered student records) exposed at scale.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated student and staff personal data, school records, and full financial reports from Odyssey Academy, attributing the breach to negligent administration; the data has been published on the group's leak site.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student personal data
Staff personal data
School administrative records
Full financial reports
Confidential documentation

What the group claims

Odyssey Academy is a free public charter school. This school educates and prepares children for adulthood, but a large amount of data has become publicly available due to the disrespectful and negligent attitude of its staff and administration. As a result, student and staff data and the school's records, including full financial reports and other confidential documentation, have been compromised.

Sources

Victim siteodyssey-academy.com
Leak posthttp://2tlkuy2qn7bfxyvbfpxqaqveoezctbrnk6yvbvin6dueiuk4rdoosyqd.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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