Ransomware victim disclosure

Lake Washington School District

Claimed by cmdorganization · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 31, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: cmdorganization
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lake Washington School District is a public school administrative body founded in 1914, serving K–12 education across 56 schools (33 elementary, 14 middle, 9 high) in Kirkland, Redmond, and Sammamish, Washington.

Industry: Public Education Administration
Address: Redmond, Washington, US
Founded: 1914

Attack summary

Severity: high — Public K–12 school district with likely access to PII at scale (students, staff, families) and sensitive educational records. Disclosure of such data poses significant privacy and safety risks to minors.

The cmdorganization group claims to have compromised Lake Washington School District and published data from the breach. No specific operational impact or data categories have been detailed in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

School administration records
Student/staff data (inferred)

What the group claims

Founded in 1914, Lake Washington School District is the administrative body responsible for planning and managing public education for 33 elementary, 14 middle, and 9 high schools. It serves communities of Kirkland, Redmond and about half of Sammamish. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Sources

Victim sitelwsd.wednet.edu

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About cmdorganization

Based on the limited available information, cmdorganization is an obscure ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with only three documented victims to date, suggesting either a newly emerged threat actor or a small-scale operation with primarily financial motivations. The group's targeting pattern shows a geographic focus on Canada, the United States, and Italy, with a sectoral preference for healthcare and construction industries, though the limited victim count makes it difficult to establish definitive targeting criteria. Due to the recent emergence and low victim count, there is insufficient publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or operational structure. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported for this group, likely due to their limited operational scope and recent emergence. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active but operates at a relatively small scale compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2026; most recent post June 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 31, 2026Lake Washington School District listed by cmdorganizationon 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, Lake Washington School District is reported in US, a country with 2,714 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.