Was Madison School District Schools hit by ransomware?

Madison School District Schools was listed by the Interlock 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 Interlock ransomware group?

Interlock 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 Madison School District Schools breach?

Interlock published data attributed to Madison School District Schools. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Madison Elementary School District 38

listed as Madison School District Schools · Claimed by Interlock · listed 1 year ago

14m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Apr 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Madison Elementary School District 38 is a public school district headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, serving students across multiple elementary and middle schools. The district operates signature programs including International Baccalaureate, Spanish Immersion, STEAM, and Visual & Performing Arts, with enrollment-based access.

Industry: Public K-12 Education
Address: Phoenix, Arizona
Employees: 250-499

Attack summary

Severity: high — Public K-12 school district breach with access to student personally identifiable information (PII), special education records (protected under IDEA), and family contact data. Educational records are regulated under FERPA. Data published status confirmed but no proof files quantified.

Interlock claims to have breached Madison School District. The leak post does not specify whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it detail what specific data categories are at risk.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student enrollment records
Family contact information
Student achievement data
Special education records
Financial/payment information

What the group claims

Madison School District is dedicated to providing caring, innovative, and academically strong experiences for our students. Madison School District Schools is a company that employs 250to499 people and has 10Mto25M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 25, 2025Madison School District Schools listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 114 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, Madison School District Schools is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means Madison School District Schools 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 Interlock'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.