Was anwsd.org hit by ransomware?

anwsd.org was listed by the Threeam 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 Threeam ransomware group?

Threeam 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 anwsd.org breach?

Threeam published data attributed to anwsd.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Addison Northwest School District

listed as anwsd.org · Claimed by Threeam · listed 1 year ago

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 15, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Threeam
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jan 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) is a public school district in Vermont serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade across four schools: Vergennes Union Elementary School (K-6), Ferrisburgh Central School (K-6), Addison Central School (K-6), and Vergennes Union High School (7-12). The district is located between Burlington and Middlebury communities in Addison County.

Industry: Public Education

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Public education entity with student and staff data exposure disclosed; no ransom demanded, no operational impact stated, but student/minor PII likely present in typical school district systems.

Threeam ransomware group claims to have targeted the Addison Northwest School District. The leak post confirms data disclosure but provides no specific details about whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

student records
staff directory
school system data

What the group claims

Our district is comprised of Vergennes Union Elementary School (K-6), Ferrisburgh Central School (K-6), Addison Central School (K-6) and Vergennes Union High School (7-12). We are conveniently located between Burlington and Middlebury communities...

Sources

Victim siteanwsd.org
Leak posthttp://threeamkelxicjsaf2czjyz2lc4q3ngqkxhhlexyfcp2o6raw4rphyad.onionpost.php?id=54

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Threeam

Threeam is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating as a relatively new player in the ransomware ecosystem with 64 documented victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major security agencies, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Threeam appears to employ common initial access vectors targeting organizations across business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Brazil representing their primary geographic focus areas. While specific technical details about their encryption methods and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their emergence in late 2023 and victim count suggests they have established operational capabilities within the competitive ransomware landscape. The group's current operational status remains active based on the recency of their emergence, though detailed law enforcement actions or disruption efforts have not been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other major security organizations. The group has been linked to 85 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 15, 2025anwsd.org listed by Threeamon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Threeam

Threeam has been linked to 85 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, anwsd.org is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Threeam means anwsd.org 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 Threeam'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.