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Warren County Sheriff’s Office

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 19, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Warren County Sheriff’s Office2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomhouse on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Public SectorDiscovered: 2026-01-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Warren County Sheriff's Office (Kentucky, USA), led by Sheriff Brett Hightower, is a professional law enforcement agency dedicated to protecting residents and visitors, upholding Kentucky state laws and the U.S. Constitution, and delivering comprehensive public safety services across the county. The office provides a wide range of functions, including proactive crime prevention, rapid incident response, equitable enforcement of ordinances and statutes, civil process execution, tax collection and administration, concealed carry permit issuance, and various community-oriented programs and educational initiatives. Headquartered in Bowling Green, the agency maintains a 24/7 operational commitment to emergency preparedness, integrity-driven community policing, and continuous improvement through citizen engagement and feedback to enhance overall safety and quality of life.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 19, 2025

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (4)

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2021-06-01

ransomhouse

According to ransomware.live, RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.

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