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Pequannock Township School District

Claimed by Interlock · listed 11 months ago

11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 15, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Interlock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Aug 15, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pequannock Township School District is a comprehensive public school district serving pre-K through 12th grade students in Pequannock Township, Morris County, New Jersey. As of the 2018-19 school year, the district operated five schools with an enrollment of 2,123 students and 167.5 classroom teachers.

Industry
Public Education
Address
Pequannock Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States
Employees
167.5

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Educational institution with student and staff records potentially at risk (including PII of minors), but the leak post provides no specific proof of data exfiltration, no details on data scope, and no confirmation of operational disruption. Classification as medium reflects the sensitive nature of K-12 records and the disclosed status without substantive evidence details.

The Interlock group claims to have attacked Pequannock Township School District. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what specific data categories are at risk.

medium

What the group claims

The Pequannock Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pequannock Township, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 201819 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 2,123 students and 167.5 classroom teachers, for a studentteacher ratio of 12.7:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-highest of eight groupings.

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 114 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 15, 2025Pequannock Township School District listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 114 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, Pequannock Township School District is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means Pequannock Township School District 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 Interlock'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.