Was cedarridge.org hit by ransomware?

cedarridge.org was listed by the L Group 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 L Group ransomware group?

L Group 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 cedarridge.org breach?

L Group published data attributed to cedarridge.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cedar Ridge Ministries

listed as cedarridge.org · Claimed by L Group · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: L Group
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Aug 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cedar Ridge Ministries operates a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) and children's home providing residential treatment services. Located in Williamsport, Maryland, the organization is a non-profit ministry committed to child welfare and operates WCRH Radio as part of its community engagement.

Industry: Non-profit Residential Treatment & Children's Services
Address: 12146 Cedar Ridge Rd, Williamsport, MD 21794

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Disclosed status is 'data_published' but no proof files are accessible or described. The victim is a non-profit handling children's residential care, which involves sensitive records (potentially including minors' personally identifiable information, medical, and behavioral data). Lack of proof accessibility prevents confirmation of exfiltration scope, but the sector involves regulated sensitive data by nature.

The L Group claims to have accessed Cedar Ridge Ministries' systems. The leak post provides no accessible details about what data was exfiltrated or the scope of the breach, as the group's onion site returns only an Apache server error.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

You don't have permission to access this resource.
Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) Server at 4zrjdyuq4sjogm2epwwoleegquavhwo3o7fakstnlgox6guqt3qpe4qd.onion Port 88

Sources

Victim sitecedarridge.org
Leak posthttp://4zrjdyuq4sjogm2epwwoleegquavhwo3o7fakstnlgox6guqt3qpe4qd.onion/posts/cedarridge.org/

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About L Group

Based on available data, L Group is a ransomware threat actor first observed in August 2026, operating with a primary financial motivation consistent with contemporary cybercriminal extortion operations. Given the recency of their emergence, comprehensive technical attribution and methodology details have not yet been fully documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant. Targeting patterns derived from observed victim data indicate the group has claimed at least 26 victims across the United States, Australia, Canada, Argentina, and Germany, suggesting an opportunistic, geographically diverse targeting approach rather than a regionally focused campaign. Their sectoral focus spans Retail and E-Commerce, Professional Services, Technology, and Agriculture and Food Production, indicating broad opportunistic targeting rather than specialized vertical expertise. Due to the limited open-source intelligence currently available on this group, definitive conclusions regarding their origin, affiliation, ransomware-as-a-service model involvement, specific tooling, or initial access vectors cannot be responsibly stated at this time. Analysts should treat L Group as an emerging threat actor warranting continued monitoring as their operational patterns and technical indicators become better documented through ongoing incident response and law enforcement reporting. The group has been linked to 28 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 22, 2026cedarridge.org listed by L Groupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by L Group

L Group has been linked to 28 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, cedarridge.org is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by L Group means cedarridge.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 L Group'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.