Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsDanbury Public Schools
Claimed by Cryptbb · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Sep 15, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Cryptbb
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Education
- Listed on leak site
- Sep 15, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileDanbury Public Schools is a public K-12 school district headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. The district operates numerous elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as early childhood, adult education, and alternative learning programs. It serves a large urban community in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- Industry
- K-12 Public Education
- Address
- Danbury, Connecticut, United States
- Employees
- 1001-5000
Attack summary
Severity: high — A K-12 public school district holds substantial volumes of regulated PII including minor students' educational and health records (FERPA/HIPAA-adjacent), employee data, and financial information. The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of sensitive data at scale involving minors.The Cryptbb ransomware group claims to have attacked Danbury Public Schools and the disclosure status indicates data has been published, though the leak post itself contains no explicit description of encryption or exfiltration methods, nor details of the data stolen.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Student records
- Employee/HR records
- Financial records
- Health services data
- Family and community contact information
- Administrative documents
What the group claims
Danbury Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. In 2006 Eddie Davis retired from being superintendent. Salvatore Pascarella succeeded Davis that year.https://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/
Sources
Source
Indexed 3 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
