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City of Beacon

bd_ddab6bac9b50f928 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 23, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for City of Beacon

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: Government & DefenseDiscovered: 2026-08-06

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The City of Beacon is committed to protecting online users' privacy. If you send the company an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails the company this information, the company will only use the personally identifiable information to respond to your request and analyze trends. The company may redirect your message to another government agency or person who is in a better position to answer your question. The company's server logs automatically collect electronically generated information about your visit to the company's site, such as the date, type of browser used, and technical Internet protocol data. The company may collect this information about each user session and refer to it in summary form for statistical purposes. The company do not use 'persistent' cookies to collect permanent information.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 23, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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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