Was The Keenan Agency Inc hit by ransomware?

The Keenan Agency Inc was listed by the Royal ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Royal ransomware group?

Royal is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the The Keenan Agency Inc breach?

Royal published data attributed to The Keenan Agency Inc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Keenan Agency Inc

Claimed by Royal · listed 4 years ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 16, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Dec 16, 2022
Ransom demanded: $5M
Estimated revenue: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Keenan Agency Inc is a leading independent insurance agency headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, founded in 1938. The agency insures thousands of clients nationwide, providing comprehensive insurance and risk management programs tailored to individual and business needs. It operates with a consultative approach covering personal and commercial insurance lines across Central Ohio and beyond.

Industry: Independent Insurance Agency & Risk Management
Address: 6805 Avery-Muirfield Dr Ste 200, Dublin, Ohio, 43016, United States
Founded: 1938

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The Keenan Agency holds sensitive PII and insurance/financial records for thousands of clients nationwide; data has been published (not merely threatened), and the $5M ransom demand is consistent with large-scale regulated data exfiltration involving personal and business insurance records.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have attacked The Keenan Agency Inc, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The group is demanding $5 million, suggesting exfiltration and/or encryption of company and client data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client insurance records
Personal insurance information
Business insurance program data
Risk management documentation
Internal company files

What the group claims

The Keenan Agency IncHeadquarters:6805 Avery-muirfield Dr Ste 200, Dublin, Ohio, 43016, United StatesPhone Number:(614) 764-7000Revenue: $5 MillionThe Keenan Agency Inc is a leading independent insurance agency in Central Ohio, founded in 1938. As a leader, The Keenan Agency insures thousands of clients nationwide. We provide each client a comprehensive insurance and risk management program tailored to their unique needs.We take pride in our consultative approach; at The Keenan Agency we take the time to understand your changing insurance needs, and will put a personal insurance or business insurance program in place that will deliver economy, superior protection, and risk management assistance.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 16, 2022The Keenan Agency Inc listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Keenan Agency Inc is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means The Keenan Agency Inc appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Royal's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.