Official Statement: Protecting palatineschool.org Infrastructure
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Full breach record for Official Statement: Protecting palatineschool.org Infrastructure →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Stormous 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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During our routine network security audits, our team discovered critical structural vulnerabilities within Palatine School, which granted us full, unrestricted access to their central server (PALDC2020). We had the technical capacity to access every directory, including pupil databases ( StudentData NHS NO ) , Pupil Admin - Users -FocusIT) and staff records Personnel.We want to announce that we have locked down this operation and decided to leak absolutely nothing.This is an institution dedicated to children and special needs education. Unlike corporate thieves or ruthless threat actors, we operate with a strict code of ethics: we do not target children, schools, or healthcare facilities.Instead of destroying them, we have chosen to act as an uninvited security audit. We are using our platform to publicly invite the administration of Palatine School to contact us privately. We will provide them with the full technical details of the critical vulnerabilities we discovered and guide them on how to patch their system for free, ensuring they are protected from other ruthless cyber criminals.
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Jun 28, 2026
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stormous
According to ransomware.live, Stormous is an Arabic-speaking, pro-Russian ransomware and hacktivist group active since at least 2022, known for politically motivated attacks across 15+ countries, collaborating with GhostSec on the GhostLocker 2.0 RaaS platform and inheriting GhostSec's RaaS operations in mid-2024.