Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 29, 2023Village Church of Barrington listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Non-Profit sector, which has 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Village Church of Barrington is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Village Church of Barrington

Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jul 29, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Non-Profit
Listed on leak site: Jul 29, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Village Church of Barrington (VCB) is a Christian congregation located in Barrington, Illinois, founded in 1977. The church holds multiple weekly services and focuses on gospel-centered worship, community, service, and outreach. It operates various ministries including children, student, men's, women's, and missions programs.

Industry: Religious Institution / Non-Profit Church
Address: 1600 E. Main St., Barrington, IL 60010
Founded: 1977

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is confirmed published (not merely listed), likely including PII of congregation members and potentially financial donation records, constituting significant exposure of personal and financial data of private individuals at scale.

Nokoyawa claims to have attacked Village Church of Barrington and lists the disclosure status as 'data_published', indicating exfiltrated data has been released. The leak post does not specify ransom amount or total data volume.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Church member personal information
Staff and leadership records
Financial giving records
Contact information (names, emails, phone numbers)
Internal church communications

What the group claims

The Village Church is an religious institution founded in 1977 and is based in Mound, Texas . The village was founded to bring glory to God by making disciples through gospel-centered worship, gospel-centered community, gospel-centered service and gospel-centered multiplication.We will...

Sources

Victim sitevcbweb.org/
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/64c53e53f6451b16e0581357

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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