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Kenya Airways

Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 3 years ago

30m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 30, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomexx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Kenya
Sector
Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site
Dec 30, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kenya Airways Ltd. is the flag carrier airline of Kenya, founded in 1977 following the dissolution of East African Airways. Headquartered in Embakasi, Nairobi, with its main hub at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, it operates regional and international flights across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Industry
Air Transportation
Address
Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya
Founded
1977

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive PII at scale (staff records, passport data) combined with operational data (accident records) from a critical infrastructure operator (national flag carrier). Data publication without ransom demand suggests real breach.

Ransomexx claims to have exfiltrated data from Kenya Airways including accident records, staff IDs, personnel files, passport information, and staff death records. The group has published data but no ransom demand is stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Accident records
  • Staff IDs
  • Personnel files
  • Passport information
  • Staff death records

What the group claims

Kenya Airways Ltd., more commonly known as Kenya Airways, is the flag carrier airline of Kenya. The company was founded in 1977, after the dissolution of East African Airways. Its head office is located in Embakasi, Nairobi, with its hub at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Accidents, IDs, cases, passports, staff death, etc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 30, 2023Kenya Airways listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomexx

Ransomexx has been linked to 86 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomexx dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kenya Airways is reported in Kenya, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means Kenya Airways 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomexx'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.