Was Church of the Ascension Anglican hit by ransomware?

Church of the Ascension Anglican was listed by the Ciphbit ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Ciphbit ransomware group?

Ciphbit 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 Church of the Ascension Anglican breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Church of the Ascension Anglican. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Church of the Ascension Anglican

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 26, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Listed on leak site: Nov 26, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Church of the Ascension (Anglican) is a mid-sized parish church located at 2060 Dundas St, London, Ontario, Canada, within the Diocese of Huron and the Anglican Church of Canada. The church offers regular worship services, Christian education, and community outreach programs with a focus on food security initiatives such as a free community breakfast and bagged lunch distributions. It is led by Rev. Canon Dr. Osita Oluigbo and serves an all-inclusive congregation in the local London, Ontario area.

Industry: Religious Organization / Anglican Parish Church
Address: 2060 Dundas St, London, ON N5V 1R2, Canada
Employees: 1-10

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been marked as published by the threat actor, suggesting some exfiltration occurred. However, the victim is a small parish church with limited scale; no specific regulated data (e.g., medical or government records) is confirmed. The community-facing nature of the organisation means donor and congregant PII could be exposed, warranting medium severity.

Ciphbit claims to have attacked the Church of the Ascension Anglican and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor does it detail the volume or nature of the data compromised.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Congregation member records
Donor information
Internal communications
Staff/volunteer records
Financial/donation records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

The Church of the Ascension Anglican is a faith-based organization part of the Anglican Communion. They focus on the teachings of Jesus Christ and rely on the Book of Common Prayer for worship. The church is a welcoming and accepting community, offering regular mass, youth programmes, community outreach and service initiatives. Their mission is to grow the body of Christ by ministering to their congregation and their local community.

Sources

Victim siteascensionlondon.com

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Ciphbit

Ciphbit is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across Western nations. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With limited public documentation from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported in open-source intelligence. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 36 documented victims, primarily concentrating their operations in the United States, Italy, France, Germany, and Portugal, with a notable preference for targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction sectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Ciphbit have been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of current reporting. Based on available intelligence, Ciphbit appears to remain active as of late 2023, though their relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation make definitive status assessments challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post February 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 26, 2025Church of the Ascension Anglican listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

Ciphbit has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Church of the Ascension Anglican is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Church of the Ascension Anglican 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ciphbit'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.