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Centra Sota Cooperative

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 5 days ago

5d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 10, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Jun 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Centra Sota Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative based in Buffalo, Minnesota, serving farmers across the region. It provides grain marketing, agronomy services, energy products, feed solutions, crop inputs, precision agriculture services, and fuel supply to member producers.

Industry
Agricultural Cooperative
Address
Buffalo, MN, US

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is a listing/announcement with no proof files, no confirmed exfiltration, no operational disruption stated, and no specific data inventory disclosed. Insufficient evidence of actual compromise.

The worldleaks group claims to have compromised Centra Sota Cooperative but no specific attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) is stated in the available post. No data categories or operational impact are explicitly detailed.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Centra Sota Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative based in the United States, primarily serving farmers in Minnesota. It provides grain marketing, agronomy services, energy products, and feed solutions to its members. The cooperative supports local producers with crop inputs, precision agriculture services, and fuel supply, operating within the broader agricultural and farm services industry typical of Midwest cooperative structures.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 167 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 10, 2026Centra Sota Cooperative listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 770 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Centra Sota Cooperative is reported in United States, a country with 3,101 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Centra Sota Cooperative 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 worldleaks'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.