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Metropolitan Club DC

Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

2.1 TB
Data size
35m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 27, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomed
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
Aug 27, 2023
Data size
2.1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington is a prestigious private members' club located in Washington, DC, founded in 1863. It serves a membership base of political, business, and social elites in the nation's capital, offering dining, lodging, and event facilities. The club maintains extensive membership and financial records by the nature of its operations.

Industry
Private Members' Club / Hospitality
Address
1700 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20006
Employees
51-200
Founded
1863

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 2.1 TB of confirmed exfiltrated data includes PII at scale (full membership list of a high-profile private club with politically prominent members, employee data, and customer records), representing a significant regulated-data and reputational exposure. Data has been published.

The ransomed group claims to have exfiltrated 2.1 TB of data from metroclub.org, including the entire membership list, employee data, source code or site data, and customer records. No encryption was mentioned; the disclosure status indicates data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Full membership list
  • Employee records
  • Customer / source data
  • Entire website dump (2.1 TB)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

We were able to dump the entire metroclub.org site. Metroclub is a privte club from DC. There is 2.1TB of data. This screenshot show most of important info but still gathering a lot of data. We have their entire members list and employee data. Source and costumers data.

Sources

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

  • August 27, 2023Metropolitan Club DC listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site
Data size
2.1 TB

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 Hospitality sector, which has 103 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Metropolitan Club DC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means Metropolitan Club DC 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 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.