Salvation Army allegedly breached by Interlock ransomware

International Protestant Christian church and charitable organization Salvation Army had 93 GB of data purportedly stolen from its systems by the Interlock ransomware gang, Cybernews reports.

Multiple Microsoft SQL server database backups are believed to have been compromised in the intrusion, with at least one of the backups including 1.6 million donation transactions revealing individuals' full names, phone numbers, home addresses, and donation amounts, according to the Cybernews research team.

"The data leak is dangerous as it could be used for financial profiling by cybercriminals, as well as scams that impersonate the Salvation Army, attempting to lure money out of individuals," said researchers.

Such an alleged breach of the Salvation Army comes months after the organization was claimed to have been breached by the Chaos ransomware operation. Meanwhile, at least 66 organizations, including Ohio's Kettering Health and Minnesota's City of St. Paul, have already been targeted by Interlock over the past year, data from Cybernews' RansomLooker tool showed.