Was Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs hit by ransomware?

Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs was listed by the Snatch ransomware operation (United States), 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs breach?

Snatch published data attributed to Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

$18.4

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 18, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 18, 2023
Ransom demanded: $18.4

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs (FDVA) is a Florida state government agency employing more than 1,100 staff dedicated to advocating for and serving the state's veterans and their families. It administers veteran benefits, services, and programs across Florida, which is widely regarded as the most veteran-friendly state in the nation. The agency operates nursing homes, claims assistance offices, and various veteran support programs statewide.

Industry: State Veterans' Affairs & Benefits Administration
Address: 11351 Ulmerton Road, Largo, FL 33778, United States
Employees: 1100

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a state government agency holding sensitive PII and benefits data for a large veteran population; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of regulated personal and potentially medical/financial data at scale.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs and has disclosed the status as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and publication of data. The leak post references the agency's workforce and financial figures, suggesting internal documents were accessed and exfiltrated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal agency documents
Employee records
Veteran personal information (PII)
Financial records
Benefits and claims data

What the group claims

Watching over and advocating for our state’s veterans and their families are the more than 1,100 men and women of the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs.Florida has earned a reputation as the most veteran-friendly state in the nation. Our state’s veterans bring more than $18.4

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 18, 2023Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $18.4

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs 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 Snatch'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.