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Shalom Christian Academy

Claimed by Interlock · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 9, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Interlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shalom Christian Academy is a PreK through 12th grade private Christian school focused on developing students for lives of consequence in service of God's kingdom. The school operates a full curriculum spanning early childhood through high school, with programs in academics, arts, athletics, and student support services.

Industry
Primary & Secondary Education

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of multiple categories of highly regulated and sensitive data including student educational records (FERPA-protected), health information (HIPAA-relevant), special education records (IDEA-protected), and employee background checks. At-scale exposure of PII affecting children, families, and staff creates substantial risk of identity theft, financial fraud, extortion, and harm to minors.

The interlock group claims to have exfiltrated a comprehensive set of educational and personnel records from the school, including student grades, disciplinary records, special education files, health and immunization records, financial aid and tuition information, donation history, employee background checks, and salary data. The group published these files to demonstrate the school's security negligence and breach of duty to protect confidential information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student grades
  • disciplinary records
  • special education records
  • health and immunization records
  • financial aid information
  • tuition records
  • donation history
  • employee background checks
  • salary data
  • internal security documents

What the group claims

As a school, Shalom Christian Academy is legally and ethically obligated to maintain a wide range of confidential information. However, they are grossly negligent in protecting their own security and that of their students and staff. Consequently, we provide you with student grades, disciplinary and special education records, health and immunization records, financial aid and tuition information, donation history, employee background checks, salary data, and internal security documents. This leak into the public domain constitutes an unacceptable betrayal that can lead to identity theft, financial fraud, extortion, harassment, and devastating harm to children and families. The school is culpable for this act and must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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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 133 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 9, 2026Shalom Christian Academy listed by Interlock on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 133 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Interlock dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,089 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Shalom Christian Academy is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means Shalom Christian Academy 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 Interlock'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.