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NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT

Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

728 GB
Data size
38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 18, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Royal
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
May 18, 2023
Data size
728 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nashua School District is a public school district serving Nashua, New Hampshire, a city of approximately 88,000 residents. The district operates numerous elementary, middle, and high schools (including Nashua High School North and South) and provides a wide range of educational services to students and families. It is one of the larger public school districts in New Hampshire.

Industry
Public K-12 Education
Address
141 Ledge Street, Nashua, NH 03060
Employees
1001-5000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 728 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data includes SSNs, passport information, and personal records of both minors (students) and employees — constituting regulated PII at scale, including data belonging to children, which triggers FERPA, COPPA, and state privacy obligations.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 728 GB of data from the Nashua School District, including SSNs, passport documents, personal data forms for both employees and students, confidential documents, and a large number of databases, with the group stating the data will be published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
  • Passport documents
  • Employee personal data forms
  • Student personal data forms
  • Confidential documents
  • Databases

What the group claims

The Nashua, New Hampshire School District is a city of 88,000 residents with much to offer. Most notably, the City has a long tradition of supporting public education, both with resources and volunteers. The School District doesn't need it's 728GB of data containing SSNs, passports, forms with personal data both of employees and students. Confidential document and a crazy amount of databases will be uploaded here as well. Stay in touch.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 18, 2023NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT listed by Royalon the group's public leak site
Data size
728 GB

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Royal dossier →

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, NASHUA 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 Royal means NASHUA 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 Royal'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.