{"id":224219,"date":"2026-03-12T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:55:13","slug":"england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"England Hockey investigating ransomware data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/\">England Hockey investigating ransomware data breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 16:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>England Hockey, the governing body for field hockey in England, is investigating a potential data breach after the AiLock ransomware gang listed it as a victim on its data leak site.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor allegedly stole 129GB of data from the organization\u2019s systems and announced that it will soon publish the files, unless a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n<p>England Hockey is aware of the threat actor\u2019s claims and has prioritized an inquiry that involves both internal teams and external experts to determine what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of an incident involving England Hockey and are currently investigating the matter as a priority,\u201d the field hockey organization said in a statement for BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of this investigation, we recently became aware of a post from the group claiming to be responsible for this incident,\u201d a representative said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working with external specialists to help understand what this means. We are also cooperating with all relevant authorities, including law enforcement,\u201d England Hockey<\/p>\n<p>The organization is\u00a0responsible for running, regulating, and developing the sport of field hockey nationwide, from grassroots participation to elite national teams. It has a membership of more than 800 clubs across the country, 150,000 registered club players, and 15,000 coaches, umpires, and officials.<\/p>\n<p>England Hockey states that it cannot comment on specific details at the moment because of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take data security matters extremely seriously, and understanding what, if any, data may have been impacted in this incident is a top priority of our ongoing investigation,\u201d assured England Hockey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AiLock claims England Hockey breach\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/u\/1220909\/2026\/March\/ailock.jpg\" width=\"750\"\/><strong>AiLock claims England Hockey breach<\/strong><br \/>Source: BleepingComputer<\/p>\n<p>AiLock is a relatively new ransomware operation that engages in double-extortion attacks. It was documented on April 1st, 2025, by researchers at cybersecurity company Zscaler, who noted that the threat actor was &#8220;leveraging sophisticated extortion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England Hockey investigating ransomware data breach https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/england-hockey-investigating-ransomware-data-breach\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-12 16:37:00 Source Domain: www.bleepingcomputer.com England&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/03\/12\/England_Hockey.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,28,34],"class_list":["post-224219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-security","tag-threat-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224221,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224219\/revisions\/224221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}