high severity March 29, 2024 · 3 min read Unverified claim — what this is

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Listed by Medusa Ransomware Group

If you are a customer of East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, here’s what is being claimed, and what it would mean for you.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office - led by Sheriff Sid Gautreaux, this Office is responsible for enforcing the laws of Louisiana within East Baton Rouge Parish,as well as maintaining the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office corporate office is located in 100 Saint Ferdinand St Rm 203, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802, United States and has 510 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 92.2 GB
— from Medusa’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.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Listed by Medusa Ransomware Group

On March 29, 2024, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office appeared on the Medusa ransomware group's leak site, claiming that internal files had been exfiltrated during a ransomware attack. The listing, hosted on the Medusa onion portal and mirrored on ransomware.live, states that 92.2 GB of data was taken from the Louisiana law-enforcement agency responsible for parish policing and operation of the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

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Reported Details from the Listing

The Medusa leak-site entry does not specify the exact categories of information stolen, only that internal files were allegedly exfiltrated. It names Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and lists the agency's address at 100 Saint Ferdinand St Rm 203, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802. The disclosure indicates the data volume at 92.2 GB but provides no further breakdown of record counts or specific databases accessed. No ransom demand figure or payment deadline is published on the public page.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a sheriff's office suffers a breach, the people whose records live inside its systems face direct risk. Police reports, arrest records, victim statements, employee personnel files, and prison inmate data frequently contain home addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, and family-member details. If any of those records belong to you or someone in your household, the exposure can lead to identity theft, targeted scams, or physical safety threats. Even if you have never been arrested or filed a report in East Baton Rouge Parish, contractor data, background-check information, or witness statements can still place ordinary residents in the stolen material.

Doxxing and Identity-Chain Implications

Ransomware operators rarely stop at one dataset. A single leaked email or phone number from this incident can be chained with information from earlier breaches to build a complete profile: current address, family relationships, children's names, and even gaming usernames. These identity chains allow criminals to launch convincing spear-phishing campaigns, file fraudulent tax returns, or harass victims through doxxing on public forums. Because law-enforcement agencies routinely handle sensitive personal information for thousands of local families, the downstream doxxing potential is significant even when the exact contents remain undisclosed.

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Severity High the filing does not enumerate what was exposed

Disclosed March 29, 2024

Last reviewed August 8, 2026

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