Providence Academy
Attack Intelligence
Providence Academy was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to interlock in December 2025. The organization, operating in the Education sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.
interlock operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
https://www.providenceacademy.org Providence Academy was established as a private Christian school. The institution's staff demonstrated a disregard for their own security and that of all their students. As a result, all student databases were accessed, revealing all personal information, including SSNs. The most unsafe and unsafe job was the Chief IT Director! This is simply nonsense! Numerous financial documents and confidential employee data were also leaked.
Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-20131, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.