[QILIN] – Ransomware Victim: City of Sugar Land

AI Generated Summary of the Ransomware Leak Page

On 2025-10-25, the leak post publicly identifies the victim as the City of Sugar Land, a public-sector municipality located in Texas, United States. The metadata attributes the incident to the ransomware group “qilin.” The City of Sugar Land is described in its city description as having origins as a sugar plantation in the early mid-20th century and incorporation in 1959, and it sits within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. The post does not specify whether the attack encrypted systems or merely exfiltrated data, and there is no stated ransom amount in the dataset; the fields for impact and income_or_ransom are empty. A claim URL is indicated as present on the leak page, suggesting the attackers provided a formal channel for claims or negotiations, though the actual URL is not included in this summary. As there is no separate compromise date in the metadata, the 2025-10-25 timestamp is treated as the post date.

In terms of visuals and attachments, the dataset shows no images or screenshots on the leak page (images_count = 0) and no downloadable content (downloads_present = false). The body excerpt is empty, and there are no additional visuals described in the available data. The record notes a claim URL exists but does not display the actual link here (URLs are defanged and omitted in this summary). The output preserves the victim name “City of Sugar Land” and redacts any PII; no other company names are included, consistent with the focus on the named victim in this overview.