high severity June 07, 2025 · 4 min read Unverified claim — what this is

cityofgardendale.com Listed by INC Ransom Ransomware Group

If you are a customer of cityofgardendale.com, here’s what is being claimed, and what it would mean for you.

Gardendale Fire and Rescue is currently providing services to our community with a roster consisting of a fulltime Fire Chief, Fire Marshal and eighteen (18) Fire/Medics. The Department provides all fire, medical ALS [Advance Life Support] and various technical services to our community of approximately 50 square miles. The Department currently operates out of Fire Station #1 located at 1811 Decatur Highway. Fire Department administrators and city officials are working towards the construction of two additional satellite stations in the western and eastern areas of the city to cover the growin
— from INC Ransom’s own leak-site posting. This is the group’s claim, quoted verbatim; it is not GalaxyWarden’s reporting and has not been independently verified.

cityofgardendale.com Listed by INC Ransom Ransomware Group

On June 7, 2025, the City of Gardendale, Alabama, appeared on the leak site of the ransomware group known as Incransom. The listing includes internal files exfiltrated from the city’s networks during a ransomware attack, directly affecting residents whose personal information was stored by municipal departments including Gardendale Fire and Rescue.

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What Public Reporting Shows

Public reporting indicates that Incransom published a sample of stolen data and set an extortion deadline. The exposed material consists of internal files taken after the group gained access to the city’s systems. Available details list the victim as cityofgardendale.com and note that Gardendale Fire and Rescue operates within the community of roughly 50 square miles, providing fire, advanced life support, and technical services from its station at 1811 Decatur Highway.

Exact victim count remains unknown at the time of writing, as neither the city nor the threat actor has released a full list of affected records. The breach is confirmed only through the group’s public leak page hosted on an onion domain.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a local government like Gardendale is hit, the data involved often includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and records tied to emergency services, permits, or city contracts. If your family lives in or does business with the city, your information may now sit in a criminal archive. Once exfiltrated, that data does not disappear; it circulates among brokers who sell or trade it for identity theft, phishing, or harassment campaigns.

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Severity High the filing does not enumerate what was exposed

Disclosed June 07, 2025

Last reviewed August 8, 2026

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