Was Westwood Country Club hit by ransomware?

Westwood Country Club was listed by the Meow ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Meow ransomware group?

Meow is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Westwood Country Club breach?

Meow published data attributed to Westwood Country Club (~31 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Westwood Country Club

Claimed by Meow · listed 2 years ago

31 GB

Data size

20m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 26, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Meow
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Oct 26, 2024
Data size: 31 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Westwood Country Club is a prestigious private club established in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. The club offers members recreational and social amenities including an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, swimming facilities, and dining options, with emphasis on a walking-first golf experience and formal dress code.

Industry: Private Club & Golf
Address: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Founded: 1907

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 31 GB of sensitive data including member PII (names, contact details, marital status), financial documents (bank statements, credit agreements), medical records (child medical consents), and operational intelligence from a private club serving a defined membership base.

The Meow group claims to have exfiltrated 31 GB of confidential data from Westwood Country Club, including employee personal details, member information, financial documents, medical records, and operational files. The group is selling access to this data pack.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal details and contact information
Member contact details and marital status
Member recommendations
Insurance policies
Commercial agreements
Bank statements
Credit agreements
Invoices
Membership applications
Operational documents
Sales and tax reports
Checks and receipts
Child medical care consents
Liability insurance certificates

What the group claims

Dear customers!We are excited to offer exclusive access to over 31 GB of confidential data from Westwood Country Club, a prestigious private club located in Saint Louis, Missouri. Established in 1907, Westwood Country Club boasts a rich history, offering its members an array of recreational and social amenities, including an 18 hole golf course, tennis courts, swimming facilities, and dining options. Known for its classic charm, the club has evolved over the years to maintain its heritage while updating facilities to meet modern standards.The golf course at Westwood is a key feature, designed to promote a walking first experience, complemented by a caddie program. Westwood adheres to a formal dress code for all activities, providing members with guidelines for golf, tennis, and social events. Membership grants exclusive access to various dining services, event reservations, and social functions, fostering a tight knit community.This comprehensive data pack includes:Employee data personal details, contact information Member information contact details, marital status, club member recommendations Contracts and agreements insurance policies, commercial agreements Financial documents bank statements, credit agreements, invoices Membership documents applications, operational documents Sales and tax reports checks, receipts Medical documents and consent forms child medical care consents, liability insurance certificates And much more This data pack provides valuable insights into Westwood Country Clubs operations and may be of significant interest to professionals in the private club industry, business analysis, and other stakeholders.To gain access to this exclusive 31 GB data pack, simply click the Buy button and provide your contact details for registration. Our team will assist you in ensuring a secure and confidential transaction.Dont miss the opportunity to access detailed information from Westwood

Sources

Victim sitewestwoodcc.com
Leak posthttp://meow6xanhzfci2gbkn3lmbqq7xjjufskkdfocqdngt3ltvzgqpsg5mid.onion/product/120

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Meow

Meow is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in November 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has compromised at least 145 known victims in a short operational timeframe, demonstrating rapid scaling of their criminal enterprise. Based on their targeting patterns, Meow appears to focus heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada representing their primary victim base, though they have also expanded operations to include targets in Italy and Colombia. The group shows a preference for attacking business services organizations, manufacturing companies, healthcare institutions, and agriculture and food production entities, suggesting they may employ broad-spectrum targeting rather than highly specialized sector focus. Their emergence in late 2023 and the significant victim count achieved in a relatively short period indicates either a sophisticated operation with experienced operators or potential links to existing ransomware ecosystems, though specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence sources. Given the recent timeline of their emergence and limited public reporting from established security researchers, detailed technical analysis of their tools, tactics, and procedures remains sparse. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive law enforcement actions or major disruption efforts have not been publicly documented. The group has been linked to 145 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 24, 2023; most recent post November 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 26, 2024Westwood Country Club listed by Meowon the group's public leak site

Data size: 31 GB

Other recent disclosures by Meow

Meow has been linked to 145 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 Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Westwood Country Club is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Meow means Westwood Country Club 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 Meow'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.