Was United Association Local Union 345 hit by ransomware?

United Association Local Union 345 was listed by the Qilin ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Qilin ransomware group?

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United Association Local Union 345

Claimed by Qilin · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 13, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Qilin
Status: Listed for ransom
Listed on leak site: Aug 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

United Association Local Union 345 is a local chapter of a labor union organization. Based on the name structure, it appears to be affiliated with a skilled trades union, likely representing workers in construction, plumbing, electrical, or related mechanical trades.

Industry: Labor Union / Trade Union

Attack summary

Severity: low — Victim is only listed/announced on the group's site with no proof files, proof count, ransom demand, or substantive details about what data was accessed or how the attack was conducted. No operational impact is documented.

Qilin ransomware group lists United Association Local Union 345 on their leak site. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration, or data type are provided in the post excerpt.

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The leak post

captured from the group's site

[United Association Local Union 345](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=6ab8ea48-5461-4614-a76a-a70fd3a42589)
[G.M.A. GRANDI MARCHE AUTOMOBILI - S.R.L](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=4e83e92f-9bdd-4f12-907b-e98a783774fe)
[Chun Tai Sing Chemical Industry](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=dbd3a953-b173-430a-ba8f-45711f80893c)
[Taiwan Sintong Machinery Co., Ltd](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=68358942-11df-4ae1-b27b-448d942c828f)

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for United Association Local Union 345

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days 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 2,196 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post August 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 13, 2026United Association Local Union 345 listed by Qilinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Qilin

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If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qilin means United Association Local Union 345 appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
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.