Was Accela hit by ransomware?

Accela was listed by the Everest 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 Everest ransomware group?

Everest 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 Accela breach?

Everest published data attributed to Accela. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Accela

Claimed by Everest · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 23, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Everest
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Accela is a leading provider of cloud-based civic engagement and government productivity software, offering solutions for permitting, licensing, code enforcement, and public health. Their platform serves over 2,000 government agencies worldwide, streamlining workflows and enabling citizen access to government services. The company operates in the United States and is a significant SaaS vendor to local and state governments.

Industry: Government Technology (GovTech) & Civic Software
Employees: 501-1000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Accela provides cloud software to 2,000+ government agencies worldwide. A confirmed data publication by Everest almost certainly involves regulated PII (citizen data submitted through government permitting, licensing, and public health platforms), government operational data, and potentially sensitive law enforcement or public health records at significant scale — meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Everest ransomware group claims to have attacked Accela and has published data (disclosed_status: data_published), suggesting confirmed exfiltration of data from Accela's systems. The specific data types and volume were not enumerated in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government agency records
Permitting and licensing data
Code enforcement records
Public health data
Citizen personal information
Internal business data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Accela is a leading provider of cloud-based productivity and civic engagement applications for government agencies. Their solutions, including permitting, licensing, code enforcement, and public health solutions, are designed to streamline workflow, automate processes, and provide citizen access to various government services. Accela's software platform powers over 2000 governments worldwide.

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 369 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 23, 2025Accela listed by Evereston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Everest

Everest has been linked to 369 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Accela is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Everest means Accela 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 Everest'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.