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The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority

Claimed by Dark Project · listed 14 days ago

50 GB
Data size
15000 files records
13d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dark Project
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
Aug 5, 2026
Data size
50 GB
Records
15000 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority (MECA) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 that manages three major public event venues in Omaha, Nebraska: CHI Health Center Omaha (opened 2003), Charles Schwab Field Omaha (opened 2011), and The RiverFront (managed from 2019). MECA oversees convention, sports, and community engagement facilities across the region.

Industry
Public Event Venue Management & Convention Authority
Address
Omaha, Nebraska, US
Founded
2000

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant volume (500+ GB, ~100k files) including employee PII and financial records of a public-sector organization; data published with access link provided.

Dark Project claims to have exfiltrated over 500 GB of confidential data from MECA, including customer data, financial documents, and employee personal information. The group states approximately 100,000 files were stolen and published access to the data on the dark web.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • customer data
  • financial documents
  • employee personal data

The group's post references roughly 100000 files proof files.

What the group claims

About MECA Omaha MECA is a organization that manages public event venues in Omaha, Nebraska, including the CHI Health Center, Charles Schwab Field, and The RiverFront. Established in 2000, it plays a crucial role in hosting world-class events and fostering community engagement through its facilities. As a result of a successful cyberattack on the company, MECA suffered damage; more than 500 GB of confidential information was stolen, specifically the company’s customer data, important financial documents, and the personal data of the organization’s employees. About 100 000 files are not secured by domain for now. Download here: http://667k2ck7qlzoqt52i6dq7evcfzko2ezfrhgv6zziccjet2cc653kvbid.onion/

The leak post

captured from the group's site
> Initializing Dark Project interface...
[ Reid Electric Service, Inc has suffered a cyberattack on its service systems, resulting in the theft of approximately 50 GB of sensitive data. The breached information includes employees' personal data and detailed architectural plans of clients' buildings. ](http://darkprn3d3udnhpuxknsrhft3376lrz5tenhgkrxge5hxqe46pkbrwid.onion/article?slug=reid-electric-service-inc) [ A cyberattack has resulted in the exfiltration of nearly 300 gigabytes of highly sensitive data, exposing a vast trove of internal records. The compromised material includes personal employee documents, confidential company financial records, invoices, taxpayer statements, and extensive client information. More than 10,000 PDF files have been leaked, containing unredacted Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, payroll records, and other protected identifiers, raising the specter of widespread identity theft and regulatory scrutiny. ](http://darkprn3d3udnhpuxknsrhft3376lrz5tenhgkrxge5hxqe46pkbrwid.onion/article?slug=tsc-logistics) [ Following a successful cyberattack on Long Lewis, more than 500 GB of confidential information was stolen. More than 15,000 records containi…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority

Sources

Source

Indexed 14 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Dark Project

Dark Project is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, based on its targeting profile and operational patterns consistent with other profit-driven ransomware actors. As of the time of this writing, no major cybersecurity organizations including CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence firms have published detailed public reporting attributing Dark Project to a specific nation-state, threat actor cluster, or affiliated ransomware ecosystem, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed operation. Based on available victim telemetry, the group has claimed at least 18 known victims across a geographically diverse range of countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, and Germany representing its most frequently targeted regions. Its sectoral focus spans manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, and education, suggesting an opportunistic targeting methodology rather than a narrowly defined strategic focus, though the inclusion of healthcare and critical infrastructure-adjacent sectors such as transportation warrants continued monitoring. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation at this time, specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption implementation, extortion tactics, and tooling remain unconfirmed by open-source intelligence sources, and analysts should treat any further claims with appropriate caution pending corroborating reporting from authoritative sources. Dark Project should be considered an emerging threat actor under active observation. The group has been linked to 27 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2026; most recent post August 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 5, 2026The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority listed by Dark Projecton the group's public leak site
Data size
50 GB
Records
15000 files

Other recent disclosures by Dark Project

Dark Project has been linked to 27 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Dark Project dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector, which has 105 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dark Project means The Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority 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 Dark Project'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.