Was Kansas City Aviation Center hit by ransomware?

Kansas City Aviation Center was listed by the Blacksuit ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Blacksuit ransomware group?

Blacksuit is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Kansas City Aviation Center breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to Kansas City Aviation Center. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Kansas City Aviation Center

Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 1 year ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 2, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jun 2, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kansas City Aviation Center (KCAC) is a full-service aviation company founded in 1968, located in Olathe, Kansas. It operates as an authorized Pilatus and Piper aircraft sales and service center, offering aircraft sales, charter services, maintenance, avionics, parts distribution, and a flight training school.

Industry: Aviation Sales, Maintenance & Charter Services
Address: Olathe, Kansas, United States
Founded: 1968

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published with disclosed status, but no specific proof files or screenshots quantified in post; no explicit confirmation of sensitive PII, financial records, or regulatory data at scale; no operational disruption stated. Moderate concern due to published disclosure without ransom demand.

Blacksuit claims to have accessed Kansas City Aviation Center's systems and published data. The post does not explicitly state whether encryption occurred or what specific data was exfiltrated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
customer information
operational data

What the group claims

Founded in 1968, the Kansas City Aviation Center offers a range of aviation services. The center helps in search for new and pre-owned Pilatus, Piper and Diamond aircraft. It specializes in late model, high-performance and single-engine aircraft that are under warranty periods. The center s flight training school provides pilot safe training, as well as aircraft on rent. The Kansas City Aviation Center s aircraft maintenance department offers maintenance, repair and inspection services. The center provides avionics equipment from various distributors, including Universal, Garmin and Honeywell. It also offers a range of cabin entertainment systems. The center is an authorized distributor for aircraft parts from Rapco, Trimcraft and McCreary. The Kansas City Aviation Center is located in Olathe, Kan

Sources

Victim sitewww.kcac.com
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=aWCeKfhpW0QUV1Yo

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 2, 2025Kansas City Aviation Center listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kansas City Aviation Center is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means Kansas City Aviation Center 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 Blacksuit'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.