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Vermilion Parish School System

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 2 years ago

19m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 27, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Nov 27, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vermilion Parish School System is a public school district headquartered in Abbeville, Louisiana, established in 1876. It operates educational institutions serving the Vermilion Parish community.

Industry
Public Education
Address
Abbeville, Louisiana, United States
Founded
1876

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published on the group's leak site. School districts hold sensitive PII (student records, staff information) and educational data; exfiltration of such data at institutional scale constitutes high severity regardless of specific file count.

Rhysida claims to have conducted an attack on Vermilion Parish School System and has published data from the breach. No specific details on encryption versus exfiltration are provided in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • school records
  • administrative files

What the group claims

Vermilion Parish School System Vermilion Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Abbeville, Louisiana, United States. It was established in 1876. More

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 282 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 27, 2024Vermilion Parish School System listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 282 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, Vermilion Parish School System is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Vermilion Parish School System 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 Rhysida'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.