Was phms.com.au hit by ransomware?

phms.com.au was listed by the ransomed ransomware operation (Australia), 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 ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed 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 phms.com.au breach?

ransomed published data attributed to phms.com.au. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Platinum Hail Management Solutions

listed as phms.com.au · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$10.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023
Ransom demanded: $10.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Platinum Hail Management Solutions (PHMS) is an independent, Australian-owned company headquartered in South East Queensland specialising in paintless dent repair (PDR) and end-to-end hail damage repair solutions for insurance companies across Australia. The company operates dedicated Emergency Hail Catastrophe Repair Centres during summer hail months and a mobile service in Brisbane and the Gold Coast during winter. PHMS is a contracted specialist for RACQ and partners with major insurers, leveraging over 80 years of combined director experience in the motor repair and insurance industry.

Industry: Automotive Hail Damage Repair & Insurance Services
Address: South East Queensland, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims confirmed database exfiltration with root-level access and published the data; the database likely contains customer PII, insurance company records, and booking information, representing significant business and potentially regulated personal data exposure.

The group claims to have gained root access to phms.com.au's systems and exfiltrated the site's MySQL database, demanding a ransom of $10,000. The post indicates data has been published following the breach.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

MySQL database contents
Customer records
Insurer portal data
Booking/calendar data

What the group claims

We have hacked and exported the database of phms.com.au. We have gathered root access and access to their mysqlWe require a ransom of $10,000

Sources

Victim sitephms.com.au

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 3, 2023phms.com.au listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $10.000

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, phms.com.au is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means phms.com.au 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ransomed'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.