Was [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office hit by ransomware?

[Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office was listed by the Ransomhouse 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 Ransomhouse ransomware group?

Ransomhouse 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 [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office breach?

Ransomhouse published data attributed to [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office (~743 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Warren County Sheriff's Office

listed as [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office · Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 5 months ago

743 GB

Data size

$740

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 18, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomhouse
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Feb 18, 2026
Data size: 743 GB
Ransom demanded: $740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Warren County Sheriff's Office is a county law enforcement agency located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, led by Sheriff Brett Hightower. The office provides a broad range of public safety services including patrol, criminal investigations, court security, animal control, tax collection, school resource officers, and telecommunications. It serves Warren County, KY and handles thousands of calls for service, vehicle inspections, and civil process papers monthly.

Industry: Law Enforcement / Public Safety
Address: 429 E 10th Ave #102, Bowling Green, KY 42101
Employees: 120

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a government law enforcement agency; 743 GB of exfiltrated data from a sheriff's office almost certainly contains highly sensitive PII at scale, criminal investigation records, concealed carry background check data, and other regulated law enforcement information, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Ransomhouse claims to have encrypted systems at the Warren County Sheriff's Office and exfiltrated approximately 743 GB of data, with the incident dated 19 December 2025. The post lists the status as 'EVIDENCE', indicating proof files are held but not yet published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Law enforcement records
Criminal investigation files
Concealed carry background check data
Civil process records
Personnel/employee records
Tax records
Property and evidence records
Telecommunications data
Internal database contents

What the group claims

The Warren County Sheriff's Office (Kentucky, USA), led by Sheriff Brett Hightower, is a professional law enforcement agency dedicated to protecting residents and visitors, upholding Kentucky state laws and the U.S. Constitution, and delivering comprehensive public safety services across the county. The office provides a wide range of functions, including proactive crime prevention, rapid incident response, equitable enforcement of ordinances and statutes, civil process execution, tax collection and administration, concealed carry permit issuance, and various community-oriented programs and educational initiatives. Headquartered in Bowling Green, the agency maintains a 24/7 operational commitment to emergency preparedness, integrity-driven community policing, and continuous improvement through citizen engagement and feedback to enhance overall safety and quality of life.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 18, 2026[Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site

Data size: 743 GB
Ransom demanded: $740

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means [Internal database pack 4] Warren County Sheriff’s Office 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 Ransomhouse'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.