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The Tech Interactive

Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 1 year ago

14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 1, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Moneymessage
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
May 1, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Tech Interactive is a nonprofit science and technology museum located in downtown San Jose, California. Founded in 1998 (formerly the Tech Museum of Innovation), it welcomes over 250,000 visitors annually and has served more than 10 million visitors in its history. The facility features hands-on exhibits, an IMAX Dome Theater, educational programs, and summer camps targeting K-6 students.

Industry
Science & Technology Museum / Education
Address
201 S. Market St. San Jose, CA 95113
Founded
1998

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. No operational disruption mentioned. No specific data inventory disclosed. Appears to be a listing/announcement only with minimal substantive claims.

The Moneymessage group claims to have attacked The Tech Interactive. The leak post provides no details about what data was exfiltrated, whether systems were encrypted, or what specific information is at risk.

low

What the group claims

The Tech Interactive is a world class science and technology center in the heart of the Silicon Valley that welcomes over 250,000 visitors a year.Since opening in 1998, The Tech Interactive (formerly the Tech Museum of Innovation) has welcomed more than 10 million visitors.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post July 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 1, 2025The Tech Interactive listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Moneymessage

Moneymessage has been linked to 34 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Tech Interactive is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Moneymessage means The Tech Interactive 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 Moneymessage'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.