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Pawnee Heights Unified School District

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

498.10 GB
Data size
129 employees records
15m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Medusa
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Apr 16, 2025
Data size
498.10 GB
Records
129 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pawnee Heights Unified School District is a public K-12 school district located in Rozel, Kansas, serving elementary and secondary students. Founded in 1949 with 129 employees, it operates from its corporate office in Rozel.

Industry
Public Education
Address
100 Grand, Rozel, Kansas, 67574, United States
Employees
129
Founded
1949

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A school district breach involving 498.10 GB of exfiltrated data represents exposure of sensitive PII at scale, including student records (minors), employee information, and educational/financial data. Public education institutions handle highly regulated personal information subject to FERPA, IDEA, and state privacy laws.

Medusa claims to have exfiltrated 498.10 GB of data from the district. The group has published the data as of the disclosure date.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records
  • Employee records
  • Financial documents
  • Administrative files
  • Confidential district data

What the group claims

Pawnee Heights Unified School District ( founded 1949 ) a school district located in Rozel, Kansas. It provides academic services from elementary and secondary level. Pawnee Heights Unified School District corporate office is located in 100 Grand, Rozel, Kansas, 67574, United States and has 129 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 498.10 GB

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 16, 2025Pawnee Heights Unified School District listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site
Data size
498.10 GB
Records
129 employees

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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, Pawnee Heights Unified School District is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means Pawnee Heights Unified School District 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 Medusa'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.