Was hanover-ma.gov hit by ransomware?

hanover-ma.gov was listed by the LockBit 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 LockBit ransomware group?

LockBit 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 hanover-ma.gov breach?

LockBit published data attributed to hanover-ma.gov. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Town of Hanover, Massachusetts (Hanover Police Department)

listed as hanover-ma.gov · Claimed by LockBit · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: LockBit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Feb 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Town of Hanover is a municipal government located in Hanover, Massachusetts, USA. The Hanover Police Department operates under the town's public administration and is responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention services for the community. As a local government entity, it handles a range of civic and public safety functions.

Industry: Local Government & Public Safety
Address: 550 Hanover Street, Hanover, MA 02339, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A confirmed data publication by LockBit targeting a municipal police department strongly implies exfiltration of sensitive government and law enforcement records, which may include PII of residents, criminal records, officer data, and investigative files — all regulated and highly sensitive categories.

LockBit claims to have attacked the Hanover Police Department (hanover-ma.gov), with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The leak post references the police department's failure to fulfill its mission, suggesting exfiltration of government/law enforcement data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Law enforcement records
Government administrative data
Potentially personally identifiable information (PII)
Police department operational documents

What the group claims

The mission of the Hanover Police Department is to prevent crime, but instead of doing their job, th...

Sources

Victim sitehanover-ma.gov

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About LockBit

LockBit is a highly prolific ransomware group that emerged in October 2020 and has become one of the most active ransomware operations globally, with over 3,500 documented victims and a primary motivation of financial gain through extortion. The group is suspected to originate from Russia and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while providing them with ransomware tools, infrastructure, and support. LockBit primarily gains initial access through exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, credential stuffing attacks, and phishing campaigns, employing double extortion tactics where they steal sensitive data before encrypting systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated significant technical sophistication, developing multiple variants including LockBit 3.0 (also known as LockBit Black), and has been particularly active in targeting business services, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors across the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy. Despite ongoing law enforcement efforts and international cooperation to disrupt their operations, including seizures of infrastructure and arrests of affiliates, LockBit has shown resilience and adaptability, continuing to operate and evolve their tactics while maintaining their position as one of the most dominant ransomware threats in the cybercriminal landscape. The group has been linked to 3,536 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 21, 2020; most recent post March 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: LockBit 3.0, LockBit Black, LockBit Green, ABCD ransomware.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 14, 2026hanover-ma.gov listed by LockBiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by LockBit

LockBit has been linked to 3,536 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 Public Sector sector, which has 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hanover-ma.gov is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by LockBit means hanover-ma.gov 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on LockBit'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.