Was Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center hit by ransomware?

Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center was listed by the sinobi 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 sinobi ransomware group?

sinobi 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 Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center breach?

sinobi published data attributed to Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center

Claimed by Sinobi · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 18, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sinobi
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Dec 18, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (LFJCC) is a nonprofit community center located on the Jacobs Family Campus in La Jolla, California, serving San Diego's Jewish population and the broader general public. It offers a wide range of programs including sports, fitness, aquatics, early childhood education, youth camps, teen programs, senior services, and cultural events celebrating Jewish heritage. The center operates under an inclusive mandate welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and faiths.

Industry: Nonprofit Community & Cultural Center (Jewish Community Services)
Address: 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, California 92037
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration. The organization handles PII for children (preschool, youth camps), seniors, and community members across membership and donation records, representing significant sensitive personal data at scale for a community-facing nonprofit.

The ransomware group Sinobi claims to have compromised the LFJCC and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of organizational data; the leak post contains no explicit description of encryption or the specific data categories stolen.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Organizational program and membership records
Community member personal information
Employee records
Financial and donation records
Early childhood education records
Youth program participant data

What the group claims

The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (LFJCC) offers a diverse range of programs and services aimed at fostering community among San Diego's Jewish population as well as the general public. Their offerings include sports, fitness, aquatics, early childhood education, and various cultural events that cater to all age groups. The center emphasizes inclusivity and welcomes individuals from any background or faith to participate in their programs. Key initiatives include youth camps, educational classes, and cultural events that celebrate Jewish heritage and community engagement.

Sources

Victim sitewww.lfjcc.org
Leak posthttp://sinobi6ftrg27d6g4sjdt65malds6cfptlnjyw52rskakqjda6uvb7yd.onion/leaks/69446d4188b6823fa2caf711

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About sinobi

Based on the limited publicly available information, Sinobi appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in July 2025, with financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of 268 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, and there is no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly selective operations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy, with a focus on manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and technology sectors, suggesting they may exploit common vulnerabilities across these industries rather than deploying sophisticated, sector-specific attack vectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Sinobi have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence timeline and lack of extensive public documentation, the group's current operational status and long-term trajectory remain unclear, though the substantial victim count suggests continued activity as of the last available reporting period. The group has been linked to 274 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 5, 2025; most recent post May 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 18, 2025Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center listed by sinobion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by sinobi

sinobi has been linked to 274 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by sinobi means Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 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 sinobi'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.