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Warren County Sheriff's Office

Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 4 months ago

743 GB
Data size
$740
Ransom
demanded
3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 28, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomhouse
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Law Enforcement
Listed on leak site
Mar 28, 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 Kentucky law enforcement agency headquartered in Bowling Green, KY, led by Sheriff Brett Hightower. It provides a broad range of public safety services including patrol, criminal investigations, civil process execution, tax collection, concealed carry permit issuance, court security, and school resource officer programs across Warren County. The office handles thousands of service calls, vehicle inspections, and civil papers monthly.

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

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 743 GB of data exfiltrated from a law enforcement agency likely contains PII at scale (permit holders, subjects of investigation, tax records), sensitive criminal justice information, and operational law enforcement data — all regulated or highly sensitive categories whose exposure poses significant public safety and individual privacy risks.

RansomHouse claims to have encrypted systems at the Warren County Sheriff's Office and exfiltrated approximately 743 GB of internal data, described as an 'internal database pack'; the disclosure status is listed as evidence-stage with data published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Internal law enforcement databases
  • Civil process records
  • Tax administration records
  • Concealed carry permit data
  • Criminal investigation records
  • Personnel/command staff records
  • Community crime reports
  • Court security records

What the group claims

Internal database pack 4 - law enforcement agency data encrypted

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Data the group says was taken

  • law_enforcement_data

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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

  • March 28, 2026Warren County Sheriff's Office listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomhouse dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Law Enforcement sector. Geographically, 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 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.