Was City of Beacon hit by ransomware?

City of Beacon was listed by the Ransomhouse 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 Ransomhouse ransomware group?

Ransomhouse 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 City of Beacon breach?

Ransomhouse published data attributed to City of Beacon. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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City of Beacon

Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 6, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomhouse
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government & Defense
Listed on leak site: Aug 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

City of Beacon is a municipal government entity in New York (inferred from domain 'beaconny.gov'). The organization maintains a public website and handles citizen communications and records typical of a city government.

Industry: Local Government Administration

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post provides no concrete evidence of data exfiltration, proof files, or operational disruption. Only generic privacy policy text is shown, which does not constitute proof of a successful attack or data compromise.

Ransomware group 'ransomhouse' claims to have attacked the City of Beacon and published data. The leak post contains only generic privacy policy language; no specific details about exfiltrated data, encryption, or operational impact are provided.

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What the group claims

The City of Beacon is committed to protecting online users' privacy. If you send the company an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails the company this information, the company will only use the personally identifiable information to respond to your request and analyze trends. The company may redirect your message to another government agency or person who is in a better position to answer your question. The company's server logs automatically collect electronically generated information about your visit to the company's site, such as the date, type of browser used, and technical Internet protocol data. The company may collect this information about each user session and refer to it in summary form for statistical purposes. The company do not use 'persistent' cookies to collect permanent information.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 219 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post August 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 6, 2026City of Beacon listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 219 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 Government & Defense sector, which has 5 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, City of Beacon is reported in United States, a country with 3,159 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means City of Beacon 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 Ransomhouse'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.