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Liberty Lines Transit

listed as Liberty Lines · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

40m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 15, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Royal
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site
Mar 15, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Liberty Lines Transit is a privately owned bus transportation company headquartered in Yonkers, New York, operating local bus services throughout Westchester County in conjunction with the Westchester County Department of Transportation. The company runs approximately 59–60 routes with a fleet of around 350 vehicles, transporting approximately 30 million passengers over 10 million miles annually. It employs approximately 610 union and 140 non-union workers and is one of the largest privately owned transportation companies in New York State.

Industry
Public Transit & Bus Transportation
Address
475 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, NY 10701
Employees
750
Founded
1953

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the ransomware group against a public transit operator providing essential transportation services to millions of passengers annually. The breach likely includes employee PII (wages, health, pension data) and sensitive operational data for a critical public transportation infrastructure provider, warranting a high severity rating.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have attacked Liberty Lines Transit and has published data from the victim, as indicated by the disclosed status of 'data_published'. The leak post reproduces detailed internal company information, suggesting exfiltration of company data, though specific data categories and volume were not explicitly enumerated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee records (union and non-union)
  • Workforce compensation and benefits data
  • Operational fleet and route information
  • Corporate structure and merger/acquisition history
  • Internal company documentation

What the group claims

For over 60 years Liberty Lines has been privileged to develop and operate one of the most effective and efficient Transit systems in the country. Today Liberty operates over 300 vehicles on 60 routes and carries almost 30 million passenger over 10 million miles annually. We believe our 700 union and non-union employees are the best transit workers in America. Our employees are our greatest asset and earn excellent wages, health and pension benefits. The Liberty workforce is foundational to the local economy.Since its meager beginnings in 1953 as a 4 vehicle operation, Liberty Lines has grown through merger and acquisition to become one of the largest privately owned transportation companies in New York State. Today, the company, which is headquarted in Yonkers, operates out of 2 state of the art facilities, employing approximately 610 union and 140 non-union employees and operating a fleet of 350 vehicles from 25 foot passenger vans, to 60 foot articulated and hybrid buses.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 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

  • March 15, 2023Liberty Lines listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Royal

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

See the full Royal 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, Liberty Lines 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 Liberty Lines 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.