Was Italy hit by ransomware?

Italy was listed by the ImNotAVillain ransomware operation (Italy), 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 ImNotAVillain ransomware group?

ImNotAVillain 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 Italy breach?

ImNotAVillain published data attributed to Italy. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Italy

Claimed by ImNotAVillain · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 24, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ImNotAVillain
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Government & Defense
Listed on leak site: Sep 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The victim is identified only as 'Italy', referring to Italian state institutions or government agencies. No specific entity, department, or organization name is provided in the leak post.

Industry: Government & Defense

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Claimed exfiltration of 150 GB from multiple Italian government and defense departments represents potential exposure of state-level sensitive data, regulatory records, and national security information at significant scale.

The group claims to have exfiltrated data from Italian government and defense departments, alleging violations of data protection laws. Approximately 85,000 files totaling 150 GB are stated to have been accessed across multiple top-level departments and units.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government department records
Defense unit files
Institutional data

What the group claims

Italy is being exposed for failing to follow proper data protection laws. Includes 85,000+ Files — 150GB. Top departments, units, offices affected.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Personal information on more than 130K federal officers across top departments has been obtained by us. 
Official mailboxes contained unsecured copies of identity documents, including passports, health cards, immigration papers, and all other PII. Sample shown above. 
An arms license for an Israeli-flagged vessel was left in official email alongside hundreds of similar documents. 
A federal officer's full identity file and diplomatic passports were left sitting in official systems with no real protection.

Sources

Leak posthttp://o6rtgcjdjqyimjxexpejddhdfbehsjn4fcsazfkgwydeb27gqhtdntyd.onion/italy.html

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About ImNotAVillain

ImNotAVillain is a ransomware operator currently tracked by Darkfield. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 24, 2026Italy listed by ImNotAVillain on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government & Defense sector, which has 6 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Italy is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ImNotAVillain means Italy 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ImNotAVillain'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.