Was ecfa.org hit by ransomware?

ecfa.org was listed by the Incransom 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 Incransom ransomware group?

Incransom 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 ecfa.org breach?

Incransom published data attributed to ecfa.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability

listed as ecfa.org · Claimed by Incransom · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 2, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) is an American accreditation agency founded in 1979 that certifies Christian churches and nonprofits based on financial integrity, board governance, and transparent fundraising. It represents over 2,700 member organizations with a collective revenue of $38.2 billion and reaches 2.1 billion people globally.

Industry: Nonprofit Accreditation & Financial Governance
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Organization holds sensitive financial and donor records for 2,700+ accredited member institutions with billions in collective revenue. Even without explicit proof of data exfiltration or details on data scope, the targeting of an accreditation body creates risk to downstream member organizations and their donors. However, lack of published proof files or confirmed data breach details prevents higher classification.

The incransom group claims to have attacked ECFA. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what specific data is at stake.

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What the group claims

Sources

Victim siteecfa.org
Leak posthttp://incblog6qu4y4mm4zvw5nrmue6qbwtgjsxpw6b7ixzssu36tsajldoad.onion/blog/disclosures/6a6faf9c9cd108bf26e11d36

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Incransom

Incransom is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations as evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple developed nations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model. With 734 documented victims, Incransom has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, with particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers or government agencies. The group's notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources, suggesting either operational security effectiveness or limited visibility into their most significant operations. Based on available intelligence, Incransom appears to remain active as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status requires additional documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 1,738 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post August 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom, INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 2, 2026ecfa.org listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 1,738 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 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ecfa.org is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means ecfa.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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Incransom'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.