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YMCA of the USA (Digital Services)

listed as G*********************y.org · Claimed by Flocker · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 15, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Flocker
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Jul 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

YMCA's Digital Services is the technology division of the YMCA of the USA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It provides open-source website platforms and digital solutions to 174 YMCA associations and 790 branches across the United States, enabling YMCAs to deliver community services related to youth development, health, and social responsibility.

Industry
Non-profit Technology Services & Community Organization

Attack summary

Severity: high — The compromise of a mission-critical digital platform serving 174 associations and 790 YMCA branches across the US represents significant operational and data exposure risk. YMCA systems host member information, payment data, and community service records for millions of Americans. The involvement of third-party entities amplifies potential impact. However, absence of published proof files or confirmed data exfiltration prevents 'critical' classification.

Flocker claims to have compromised the main servers of YMCA's Digital Services (g*********************y.org) and systems belonging to third-party entities leveraging the YMCA infrastructure. No specific data exfiltration or encryption details are provided in the leaked post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • YMCA association member data
  • Branch operational systems
  • Third-party integrations (CRM, app platforms, vendor data)
  • Website hosting platform infrastructure

What the group claims

For the leadership of G****l H********e A*****y We have compromised your main servers G*********************y.org and 3rd Party Entity’s leveraging your […]

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Flocker

Flocker is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in May 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and having compromised at least 59 known victims within a short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, with no confirmed country of origin or clear operational model regarding RaaS capabilities established in public reporting. Based on available targeting data, Flocker appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies that have successfully compromised organizations across diverse sectors including technology, public sector, financial services, and transportation/logistics, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has demonstrated a notable geographic reach with victims identified across the United States, UAE, Taiwan, Canada, and Zambia, suggesting either broad targeting capabilities or affiliate operations, though no specific high-profile campaigns or major incidents have been publicly attributed to them by federal agencies or established security researchers. As of current reporting, Flocker appears to remain active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive threat intelligence regarding their operations remains limited in open-source reporting from authoritative cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 59 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 3, 2024; most recent post July 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 15, 2025G*********************y.org listed by Flockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Flocker

Flocker has been linked to 59 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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If your organisation is affected

A listing by Flocker means G*********************y.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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Flocker'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.