Disclosure context

About Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in April 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting small to medium-sized organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. Based on their targeting patterns, the group appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against businesses in English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, as well as expanding operations into South American markets including Brazil and Bolivia, with a preference for victims in business services and technology sectors. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, Dunghill_Leak operates as a smaller-scale ransomware group compared to major threat actors, and specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group's current operational status remains unclear, as limited public information prevents a comprehensive assessment of their ongoing activities or potential law enforcement disruption efforts. 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, 2023Roper & Vertafore listed by Dunghill_Leakon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Insurance sector. Geographically, Roper & Vertafore is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Vertafore

listed as Roper & Vertafore · Claimed by Dunghill_Leak · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dunghill_Leak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Insurance
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 insurance companies, including content management, workflow software, insurance knowledge base, and data and analytics platforms. Its insurance management software enables participants in the insurance distribution channel to scale their businesses through deeper access to information and insights. The company serves a broad range of insurers, agents, and brokers across the insurance distribution ecosystem.

Industry: Insurance Technology (InsurTech) Software
Address: Denver, Colorado, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely listed), and Vertafore handles sensitive insurance industry data including client records and analytics for a broad network of insurers and brokers, representing significant business and potentially regulated PII exposure at scale.

The Dunghill_Leak group claims to have compromised Vertafore and published data, with the disclosed status indicating data has been published rather than merely announced. The post describes access to insurance technology systems containing business and potentially client-related data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Insurance management software data
Content management records
Workflow data
Insurance knowledge base content
Analytics and business intelligence data
Client/partner insurance distribution 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.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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