First Baptist Church Listed by blacklock Ransomware Group

On December 14, 2024, the First Baptist Church of High Springs in Florida appeared on the leak site operated by the blacklock ransomware group. The listing states that internal files were exfiltrated during a ransomware attack on the small church, which has fewer than 25 employees, maintains an affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention, and reports annual revenue under $5 million. The primary disclosure does not quantify how many individuals may be affected, nor does it list the specific types of records stolen.

Details from the Leak-Site Listing

The blacklock leak site, accessible via the .onion link hosted on ransomware.live, shows a data download for fbchighsprings.org. It states that the church suffered a ransomware incident in which attackers exfiltrated internal files before encrypting systems. The disclosure indicates the data is now publicly available for anyone who visits the leak page. No ransom amount, exact breach date, or detailed inventory of the stolen material is provided in the listing itself. Public reporting on blacklock incidents follows a pattern of publishing samples or full archives when victims do not pay.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

Even a small church breach can expose the personal information of congregation members, staff, volunteers, and their families. If you or your relatives attend First Baptist Church of High Springs or have donated, attended events, or provided contact details, your data may now sit in an easily downloadable archive. Internal files often contain names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, financial contribution records, and correspondence that can be used for identity theft or targeted scams. Because churches serve entire households, one breach can ripple outward to spouses, children, and extended family who never directly interacted with the organization’s systems.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risks

Ransomware groups like blacklock rarely stop at posting generic “internal files.” Once the archive circulates on dark-web forums and cybercrime marketplaces, threat actors combine it with other leaked datasets to build detailed profiles. A church membership list paired with a reused password from an earlier breach can lead to email takeover, social-media impersonation, or even physical address exposure. Credential leaks of this kind frequently cascade into gaming-account takeovers, especially for children whose parents reuse the same email across family devices. The result is a doxxing chain that links an old church form to a teenager’s Roblox or Discord handle, exposing the entire household to harassment or further extortion.

Blacklock Ransomware Group’s Track Record

Public reporting attributes blacklock’s emergence to mid-2024. The group has targeted a range of small-to-medium organizations, focusing on entities that may lack dedicated cybersecurity staff. Notable prior victims include other churches, local government offices, and private schools. Their typical playbook begins with initial access through phishing or exploited remote-desktop services, followed by exfiltration of sensitive directories before encryption. Blacklock then posts samples on their leak site and issues a short payment deadline, often threatening to release the full dataset if the victim does not pay. The group’s extortion style is direct and leverages the public shame of a data leak rather than prolonged negotiation.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your email addresses, phone numbers, church-related handles, and real-world identity, then use the cleanup of Warden to remove what you can.
• Rotate any password you ever used at fbchighsprings.org or related church systems, and enable 2FA through an authenticator app on every account where that password was reused.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure of your information is caught and acted upon in hours rather than months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family coverage that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that often chain back to the same parental email or address.
• Let the remediation specialists handle takedown requests for any exposed personal documents or photos that surface on data-broker sites following this leak.

The blacklock listing of First Baptist Church of High Springs is a reminder that no organization is too small to trigger serious personal consequences for the people it serves. Acting quickly on the credentials and documents now circulating can limit how far attackers chain your information into larger identity theft schemes. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden provides continuous monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping, hands-on remediation by specialists, and household coverage that includes children’s gaming accounts. Start your DoxxScan trial today to regain control of what attackers already hold.