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Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com

Claimed by Dunghill · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dunghill
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vertafore is a Denver-based insurance technology company that develops software solutions for the insurance distribution channel, including agencies, carriers, and MGAs. Its product suite covers agency management systems, compliance and credentialing (Sircon), analytics, rating/quoting, workflow, and AI-powered platforms. The company claims to serve 98 of the top 100 agencies and 96 of the top 100 carriers in the United States.

Industry
Insurance Technology Software
Address
Denver, Colorado, United States
Employees
1001-5000
Founded
1995

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Vertafore handles sensitive insurance industry data at massive scale — including producer compliance records, agency/carrier data, and analytics for 98 of the top 100 US insurance agencies and 96 of the top 100 carriers. Confirmed data publication by the threat actor means regulated PII and financial services data at industry-wide scale is likely exposed.

The Dunghill ransomware group claims to have compromised Vertafore (and Ropertech.com) and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration. The post describes access to sensitive insurance technology business data, though specific data categories and volume were not quantified in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Insurance software customer data
  • Business operational data
  • Producer/agent compliance records
  • Insurance distribution channel data
  • Analytics and industry insights data

What the group claims

Vertafore is a Denver-based insurance technology company. It has developed various software for insurance companies, such as content management and workflow software, insurance knowledge base, data and analytics. It's insurance management software solutions allow participants in the insurance distribution channel to adapt to an evolving insurance industry by efficiently scaling their businesses through deeper access to information and insights.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About dunghill

The dunghill ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal operation that emerged in April 2023, with documented attacks against 16 victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on limited public reporting, the group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service operation. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services and technology sectors, with attacks documented across the United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Bolivia, and Taiwan, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers to expand their geographic reach. While specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports, their multi-country victim distribution suggests they employ common initial access vectors such as phishing, credential theft, or exploitation of internet-facing vulnerabilities. No major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions against the dunghill group have been publicly reported, likely due to their recent emergence and relatively small victim count compared to more established ransomware operations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with limited public visibility into their operations. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 26, 2023Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com listed by dunghillon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by dunghill

dunghill has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full dunghill dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by dunghill means Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com 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 dunghill'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.