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Room Hotel

listed as roomhotel-sochi.ru · Claimed by Lv · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 20, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Russia
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
Dec 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Room Hotel is a mid-size hotel located in central Sochi, Russia, near the Sochi State Circus and Summer/Winter theatres, approximately 500 meters from the beach. The hotel offers modern rooms with amenities including free Wi-Fi, 24-hour front desk, paid parking, and laundry services.

Industry
Hospitality – Hotels & Lodging
Address
Krasnodarsky Krai, Sochi, Deputatskaya St., 9/3, Russia

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by ransomware group with disclosed_status confirmed as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration occurred. However, the leak post provides minimal specifics on data sensitivity or volume, and no operational disruption is claimed. Hotel guest PII and booking data are moderately sensitive but the absence of detail on regulated data categories or scale prevents 'high' classification.

The Lv group claims to have compromised Room Hotel and published data from the breach. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • guest booking records
  • customer contact information
  • hotel operational data

What the group claims

Отель «RoomHotel» с видом на город удобно расположен в центре Сочи, рядом с Сочинским государственным цирком, Летним театром и Зимним театром. В пешей доступности популярные достопримечательности города. Расстояние до пляжа 500 м.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 20, 2023roomhotel-sochi.ru listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector, which has 103 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, roomhotel-sochi.ru is reported in Russia, a country with 63 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means roomhotel-sochi.ru 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 Lv'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.