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loraincountyauditor.gov

Claimed by Global · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 14, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Global
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Jul 14, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lorain County Auditor's Office in Ohio serves as the chief financial officer and property tax assessor for Lorain County. The office manages county finances, processes payroll for over 2,000 county employees, maintains property appraisals, distributes tax revenues to municipalities and school districts, and oversees licensing and weights/measures compliance.

Industry
Public Sector - County Government / Tax Assessment
Address
226 Middle Ave., Room 200, Elyria, OH 44035-5641
Founded
1824

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive financial and banking data from a public sector entity managing county finances and serving 312,964 residents. Exposure of bank accounts and payroll systems represents significant operational and financial risk to county government.

The ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated private information including bank accounts and related data from the county auditor's systems. No details on encryption or operational disruption are provided in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Bank account information
  • Financial records
  • Property tax data
  • Payroll information
  • Personal/private information

What the group claims

Lots of private information. Bank accounts and more.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About global

The "global" ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in June 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations based on their ransomware deployment activities. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest broad international scope. Based on available data, the group has compromised 32 known victims across multiple countries including the United States, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, and Mexico, with their attacks primarily focused on healthcare, manufacturing, technology, and public sector organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools remain undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from established security research organizations. Given the limited timeframe since their first observed activity in June 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents attributed to this group in public threat intelligence sources. The current operational status of the "global" ransomware group remains active based on their recent emergence, though comprehensive analysis is limited due to the lack of detailed public reporting from major cybersecurity firms and government agencies. The group has been linked to 32 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 4, 2025; most recent post August 20, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 14, 2025loraincountyauditor.gov listed by globalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by global

global has been linked to 32 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 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, loraincountyauditor.gov is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by global means loraincountyauditor.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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on global'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.