2026 City of McMinnville (Oregon) — RansomHouse leak-site claim (unverified)
Data compromised
Actor listing names City of McMinnville (Oregon) (mcminnvilleoregon.gov), United States. No data-type inventory or record count was published or independently validated — unverified.
Technical writeup
Unverified ransomware / extortion leak-site claim — RansomHouse published a listing naming City of McMinnville (Oregon) on August 6, 2026, tracked by leak-site monitor ransomware.live. City of McMinnville (Oregon) is a small US city, where utility billing and human-resources files are the usual exposure. At indexing time no statement from the organisation, no regulator filing and no reputable trade-press confirmation had been published, and the listing carried no attested record count, so recordsAffected is 0 and the row is labelled unverified. Leak-site listings are marketing for extortion: the appearance of a name proves the group claims access, not that data was stolen, that the claimed volume is real, or that individuals were affected. This row will be updated if the organisation confirms an incident, a regulator publishes a notification, or the group releases data that reporters validate. It was one of a large wave of listings indexed on August 5-6, 2026, when Dark Project, Qilin, RansomHouse, Orova, Barracuda, Akira, Play and Lynx all posted new victims within roughly 36 hours.
Root cause
Unverified RansomHouse ransomware/extortion leak-site listing naming City of McMinnville (Oregon) — the organisation had not confirmed any incident at indexing time.