Gobierno del Estado de Colima Listed by devman Ransomware Group

On May 26, 2025, the Gobierno del Estado de Colima appeared on the leak site of the ransomware group known as devman. Public reporting indicates the Mexican state government suffered a ransomware attack in which internal files were exfiltrated. The number of people whose personal information may have been exposed remains unknown.

Reported Details from Reporting

Available reporting describes the incident as a classic ransomware operation: attackers gained access, encrypted systems, and exfiltrated data before demanding payment. The devman leak site listed the Gobierno del Estado de Colima on May 26, 2025, and began publishing samples of the stolen material. No confirmed total of records has been released, but the data consists of internal government files that almost certainly contain names, addresses, identification numbers, and other details belonging to residents, employees, and contractors who interacted with state services.

Industry research from sources such as DoxxScan™ continuous monitoring indicates that government breaches of this type routinely expose exactly the kinds of records families rely on for taxes, licensing, education, and health services.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a state government loses control of internal files, the information inside often includes your address, phone numbers, family members’ names, and government-issued identifiers. Once that material reaches a ransomware leak site, anyone can download it. Criminals do not need sophisticated tools; a simple search is enough to pull your details into identity theft, loan fraud, or targeted scams. For ordinary families this can mean sudden calls from debt collectors for loans you never took, tax filings submitted in your name, or strangers showing up at your door because your address may now be public.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Ransomware leaks rarely stop at one dataset. A single government file can link your email address to your children’s school records, your spouse’s workplace, or your home address. Attackers follow these connections—called identity chains—to build complete profiles. One leaked record becomes the key that unlocks social-media accounts, gaming profiles, and eventually financial portals. Gaming accounts belonging to children are especially vulnerable because kids often reuse simple passwords or email addresses tied to family data. A credential leak like this one can cascade into account takeovers, doxxing, and harassment that follows your family across platforms.

Devman Group’s Publicly Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes the attack to the devman ransomware group. The group emerged in late 2024 and has targeted organizations across Latin America and Europe. Notable prior victims include municipal governments and mid-sized public institutions. Their typical playbook begins with phishing or exploitation of remote desktop services for initial access, followed by rapid exfiltration of sensitive folders, deployment of ransomware, and publication of stolen data on their leak site when payment is not made. Extortion pressure combines data leaks with direct threats to notify affected individuals or media outlets. Exact success rates are difficult to verify, but the group maintains an active leak site that updates within days of new compromises.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your handles, emails, phone numbers, and real identity, then use the cleanup to remove what you can.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure of your information is caught in hours rather than months.
• Rotate every password you used at any Colima state service and enable two-factor authentication through an authenticator app on every account where that password was reused.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family coverage that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that could chain back to the same leaked address or email.
• Let remediation specialists handle repeated takedown requests across data brokers and leak sites so you are not left chasing hundreds of copies of your information alone.

The Colima breach is a reminder that government systems holding ordinary citizens’ records remain high-value targets. Acting quickly on the credentials and connections already exposed can limit how far the damage spreads. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across 13.1 billion+ breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping that links online handles to real identities, and hands-on remediation by specialists who manage takedowns for the entire household—including children’s gaming accounts that often become the next link in a doxxing chain.