Was Wagon Mound Public Schools hit by ransomware?

Wagon Mound Public Schools was listed by the Interlock 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 Interlock ransomware group?

Interlock 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 Wagon Mound Public Schools breach?

Interlock published data attributed to Wagon Mound Public Schools (~80 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Wagon Mound Public Schools

Claimed by Interlock · listed 4 months ago

80 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Mar 9, 2026
Data size: 80 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wagon Mound Public Schools is a small rural K-12 public school district serving the Wagon Mound area of New Mexico. It operates elementary and middle school programs, providing educational resources and support to students in the community. The district is administered under the New Mexico Public Education Department.

Industry: K-12 Public Education
Address: Wagon Mound, New Mexico, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of PII at scale involving minors (students) and staff, including passport numbers and home addresses — regulated sensitive data — plus physical security information (building blueprints) affecting a public educational institution.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 80 GB of data from Wagon Mound Public Schools, including staff and student personal information such as phone numbers, residential addresses, passport numbers, and school building blueprints; the data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Staff personal information
Student personal information
Phone numbers
Residential addresses
Passport numbers
School building blueprints

What the group claims

Wagon Mound Public Schools provides education to students in the Wagon Mound area, providing resources and support for both elementary and middle schools. However, they neglected to address the security of their materials, resulting in the compromise of all their personal data, including the school's blueprints. We present to your attention a 80 GB of data, which includes staff and student information, their phone numbers, residence addresses, and passport numbers.

Sources

Victim sitewm.k12.nm.us
Leak posthttp://hu5zd7ek6glyoke5kfc4mvt6s3cmia6ebtqptumvbogzdo2vrn5e7bid.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 4 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

March 9, 2026Wagon Mound Public Schools listed by Interlockon the group's public leak site

Data size: 80 GB

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, Wagon Mound Public Schools 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 Wagon Mound Public Schools 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.