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Battle Creek Public Schools

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 21, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Aug 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Battle Creek Public Schools is a public school district in Battle Creek, Nebraska serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The district operates at least two facilities: a junior/senior high school and an elementary school serving the local community.

Industry
Public Education (K-12)
Address
Battle Creek, Nebraska, US

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of personally identifiable information of minors (named student records, special education status, discipline history) combined with disability and health information. Student PII at scale, particularly involving special education records and minors, meets the threshold for critical severity under regulated data protection standards (FERPA).

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated student records of named minors including IEP/special-education files, disability determination notices, discipline/suspension records, federal education funds compliance documentation (ESSA/Title I), and staff health-spending claims. The group is offering the data for sale.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records (named minors)
  • IEP/special education files
  • Disability determination notices
  • Discipline/suspension records
  • Federal education compliance documentation (ESSA/Title I)
  • Staff health-spending claims (PayFlex/EHA)

What the group claims

Battle Creek Public Schools Battle Creek Public Schools in Nebraska provides educational services for students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. We are pleased to present:Student records of named minors:** IEP/special-ed files, disability determination notices, discipline/suspension records.Federal funds compliance trail (ESSA/Title I application), staff health-spending claims (payflex/EHA) More

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Battle Creek Public Schools in Nebraska provides educational services for students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. **We are pleased to present:** Student records of named minors:** IEP/special-ed files, disability determination notices, discipline/suspension records.Federal funds compliance trail (ESSA/Title I application), staff health-spending claims (payflex/EHA)
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Their facilities include a junior/senior high school and an elementary school, catering to the academic needs of the local community. The intended clients are families and students residing in the Battle Creek area.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours 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 289 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post August 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 21, 2026Battle Creek Public Schools listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 289 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 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Battle Creek Public Schools is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Battle Creek Public Schools 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.