Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 278 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 17, 2026Tower View Primary School listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.

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Tower View Primary School

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 17, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Rhysida
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tower View Primary School is a primary educational institution serving approximately 380 pupils across 14 classes. It is a small school, likely state-funded, catering to children in their foundational years of education. No public website content was available to confirm its precise location or additional operational details.

Industry: Primary Education
Employees: 11-50

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a primary school whose data likely includes minors' PII, records of children under 18, and potentially safeguarding or special educational needs information — all highly sensitive regulated data. Confirmed exfiltration is claimed by the group, and the sale of such data concerning children elevates severity significantly.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated exclusive data from Tower View Primary School and is auctioning it to a single buyer within a 7-day window, implying data theft with no resale guarantee.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unspecified school data (sold as exclusive lot)

What the group claims

An educational institution that serves approximately 380 pupils across 14 classes.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Tower View Primary School is an educational institution that serves approximately 380 pupils across 14 classes.
With just 7 days on the clock, seize the opportunity to bid on exclusive, unique, and impressive data. Open your wallets and be ready to buy exclusive data. We sell only to one hand, no reselling, you will be the only owner!

Sources

Leak posthttp://rhysidafc6lm7qa2mkiukbezh7zuth3i4wof4mh2audkymscjm6yegad.onion/archive.php?last&auction

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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