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Belz Institutions

Claimed by Qilin · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Qilin
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Listed on leak site
May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Belz Institutions is a Chassidic Jewish religious and charitable organization based in Israel, associated with the Belzer Rebbe and the broader Belz Chassidic movement. It operates Torah learning programs, outreach platforms, social services, and educational initiatives for the global Belz community. The organization maintains a presence in Israel and supports affiliated institutions worldwide.

Industry
Religious & Charitable Institutions (Chassidic Jewish Community Organization)
Address
Jerusalem, Israel

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. A religious/charitable institution likely holds donor PII, financial records, and community member personal data, which constitutes significant sensitive data exposure even if not regulated at the level of medical or government records.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked Belz Institutions and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the group's leak post is no longer accessible and no specific data volume or ransom demand was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Organizational records
  • Donor/partner information
  • Community member data
  • Financial/giving records
  • Educational program data

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 2,028 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 13, 2026Belz Institutions listed by Qilinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Qilin

Qilin has been linked to 2,028 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Belz Institutions is reported in Israel, a country with 42 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qilin means Belz Institutions 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, CERT-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Qilin'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.