On February 24, 2026, rural California internet and phone provider Siskiyou Telephone appeared on the leak site of the termite ransomware group. The company, which has served Western Siskiyou County since 1896, confirmed that internal files were allegedly exfiltrated during a ransomware attack. While the exact number of affected customers remains unknown, anyone who has ever had a landline, high-speed internet account, or business service with the provider could have personal data now in attackers’ hands.
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What Public Reporting Shows
Public reporting indicates that termite posted evidence of the breach on its dark-web leak site. The data consists of internal files exfiltrated after the ransomware deployment. Siskiyou Telephone provides residential and business internet packages reaching up to 1000 Mbps as well as traditional telephone service across a largely rural area of Northern California. No precise count of exposed records has been released, and the precise types of information inside the stolen files have not been independently verified. Available reporting describes the incident as a classic ransomware attack that combined encryption of systems with later public extortion via the leak site.
Why This Matters for You and Your Family
If you or anyone in your household has done business with Siskiyou Telephone, your contact details, account numbers, or billing information may now sit on a criminal server. Rural families often keep the same provider for decades, which means the same email address, phone number, or physical address has been tied to your account for years. Once that combination leaves a trusted company, it can be sold, swapped, or used to target you with phishing, identity theft, or harassment. Even if you have since switched providers, old records rarely disappear cleanly.
The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Implications
Stolen customer files rarely contain just one data point. A single leaked phone number or email can be cross-referenced with gaming accounts, social-media handles, and family-member records to build a complete picture of your household. Credential leaks like this one frequently cascade into account takeovers on streaming services, online banking, or children’s gaming platforms. Attackers follow these chains to doxx individuals, publish home addresses, or harass family members. Because Siskiyou serves an entire county, one breach can expose hundreds or thousands of interconnected identities in the same geographic cluster, making targeted follow-on attacks easier.