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Bethel Church Irvine

listed as bkc.org · Claimed by Lockbit5 · listed 5 days ago

4d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 31, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lockbit5
Status
Data leaked
Country
Japan
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bethel Church Irvine is a Korean-language church in Irvine, California, that operates Bethel Classical Academy and offers worship services, educational programs, and missionary activities. The organization provides multilingual services including Korean, Japanese, and English.

Industry
Religious Organization & Education

Attack summary

Severity: low — Listing/announcement only with no proof files, no data inventory details, no operational impact stated, and no confirmation of actual data exfiltration or encryption. The post contains only fragmentary text snippets without evidence of compromise.

LockBit5 claims to have compromised bkc.org and bethelclassical.org. The leak post mentions a mission statement excerpt but provides no details about what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or the nature of the attack.

low

What the group claims

bkc.org and bethelclassical.org Mission Statement Bethel Classical Academy seeks to guide studen...

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 354 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post September 4, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 31, 2026bkc.org listed by lockbit5on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit5

lockbit5 has been linked to 354 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 Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bkc.org is reported in Japan, a country with 89 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit5 means bkc.org 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, JPCERT/CC (Japan), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on lockbit5'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.