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Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce

Claimed by Genesis · listed 2 months ago

1 TB
Data size
2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Genesis
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Non-profit/Business Association
Listed on leak site
May 15, 2026
Data size
1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce is a regional non-profit business association serving the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo metro area on the North Dakota/Minnesota border. It acts as a catalyst for local economic growth by promoting and protecting member businesses, supporting workforce development, shaping public policy, and fostering community engagement through various programs and events.

Industry
Non-profit Business Association / Chamber of Commerce
Employees
11-50

Attack summary

Severity: high — 1 TB of data is confirmed exfiltrated and published, including personal data (PII of members/employees), financial records, and operational data; the disclosed status is data_published, indicating actual release rather than a mere listing.

The Genesis ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1 TB of data from the organization's file server, including customer/member data, personal data, operational data, and financial data, with a file listing published to their onion site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer data
  • Personal data
  • Operational data
  • Financial data
  • Company file server contents

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce serves as a catalyst for growth and prosperity by promoting and protecting businesses, inspiring individuals, and cultivating communities. They offer various programs and events aimed at workforce development, public policy impact, and community engagement.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce serves as a catalyst for growth and prosperity by promoting and protecting businesses, inspiring individuals, and cultivating communities. They offer various programs and events aimed at workforce development, public policy impact, and community engagement.

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- 1 Tb of accessible data.
- Customer's data
- Personal data.
- Operational Data.
- Financial Data.
- Data from company fileserver. 

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[Download The List of Company Files](http://genesis6ixpb5mcy4kudybtw5op2wqlrkocfogbnenz3c647ibqixiad.onion/download/824f0a1581059760e9d3.txt)

Data the group says was taken

  • Customer data
  • Personal data
  • Operational data
  • Financial data
  • Company fileserver data

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About genesis

Genesis is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated a relatively aggressive operational tempo since emergence, accumulating 54 documented victims within a short timeframe. Given the limited public documentation available from established threat intelligence sources regarding this newly identified group, specific details about their country of origin, organizational structure, and precise attack methodologies remain under investigation by security researchers. The group's targeting patterns indicate a preference for victims in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Malaysia and Spain, suggesting either a broad operational scope or the use of automated targeting tools that do not discriminate by geography. Their sector targeting reveals a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial services organizations, indicating they may prioritize entities with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited reporting from major threat intelligence organizations such as Mandiant, CISA, or FBI, comprehensive details regarding their specific encryption methods, initial access vectors, data exfiltration practices, or notable high-profile campaigns have not yet been publicly documented. Genesis remains an active threat as of current reporting, though their operational longevity and potential connections to established ransomware ecosystems continue to be assessed by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 107 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2025; most recent post July 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 15, 2026Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce listed by genesison the group's public leak site
Data size
1 TB

Other recent disclosures by genesis

genesis has been linked to 107 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full genesis dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Non-profit/Business Association sector. Geographically, Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by genesis means Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce 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 genesis'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.