Was Snodland C of E Primary School hit by ransomware?

Snodland C of E Primary School was listed by the Nokoyawa ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Nokoyawa ransomware group?

Nokoyawa 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 Snodland C of E Primary School breach?

Nokoyawa published data attributed to Snodland C of E Primary School, around 100.000 Employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Snodland Church of England Primary School

listed as Snodland C of E Primary School · Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

100.000 Employees

Records

$6.100

Ransom

demanded

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 23, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 23, 2023
Records: 100.000 Employees
Ransom demanded: $6.100
Estimated revenue: $6.100

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Snodland Church of England Primary School is a state-funded Church of England primary school located in Snodland, Kent, United Kingdom. The school serves children in the local community, providing primary-level education within a Christian ethos. It is subject to Ofsted inspection and was last reviewed in 2022.

Industry: Primary Education (Church of England)
Address: Roberts Road, Snodland, Kent, ME6 5HL, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a primary school whose data almost certainly includes children's personal and sensitive records (SEND, safeguarding, pupil premium), constituting regulated PII relating to minors — a particularly protected category under UK GDPR and the Children Act. Data has been published, confirming exfiltration of sensitive data at a vulnerable population.

The Nokoyawa ransomware group claims to have attacked Snodland Church of England Primary School and has published data (disclosed status: data_published). The ransom figure stated is $6,100, likely reflecting the school's limited financial scale rather than a large enterprise valuation.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff personal data
Financial information
School governance documents
Parental/carer contact details
SEND and equality records
Pupil premium data

What the group claims

Snodland Church of England Primary School is a school that we are all very proud of. Everyone who visits our school comments on the calm environment we provide for our children and how much they are loved by all the staff that teach and care for them.Revenue: $6,100,000Employees:...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 23, 2023Snodland C of E Primary School listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Records: 100.000 Employees
Ransom demanded: $6.100

Other recent disclosures by Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa has been linked to 36 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, Snodland C of E Primary School is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Nokoyawa means Snodland C of E Primary School 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Nokoyawa'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.