Was IOC hit by ransomware?

IOC was listed by the Royal 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 Royal ransomware group?

Royal 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 IOC breach?

Royal published data attributed to IOC. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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IOC Company, L.L.C.

listed as IOC · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 26, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jan 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IOC Company, L.L.C. is a full-service heavy civil contractor based in South Texas, founded in 2005. The company specializes in transportation infrastructure projects including highway and road construction, asphalt paving, earthmoving, structural concrete, bridge construction, and utilities. IOC also produces construction materials such as sand, gravel, and flex base (caliche), and has completed projects ranging from small site developments to multimillion-dollar TxDOT contracts.

Industry: Heavy Civil & Highway Construction
Address: South Texas, United States (specific street address not publicly stated)
Founded: 2005

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by a known ransomware group (Royal), confirming exfiltration of business data from a civil infrastructure contractor. While specific data categories are not enumerated, the company's role in critical transportation infrastructure and the confirmed publication of data elevates severity to high.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have attacked IOC Company, L.L.C. and has published data from the victim, indicating exfiltration of company data. The specific types of data exfiltrated and whether encryption occurred are not detailed in the leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Project records
Employee information (potential)
Financial records (potential)

What the group claims

IOC Company, LLC is a full service heavy civil contractor. Our primary market is the highway and road industryFounded in 2005, IOC Company, L.L.C. is a heavy civil contractor with a history of top performance in various markets. We are best known for transportation infrastructure projects. We have built our reputation on our core values: integrity, honesty, and dedication to providing superior quality to our clients. IOC Company, L.L.C. has successfully completed projects ranging from small site developments to multimillion dollar road infrastructure projects. IOC Company, L.L.C. develops and perfects each project's individual critical path in order to carefully manage every aspect of the project and avoid potential conflicts. Using the latest technology in the industry has led IOC Company, L.L.C. to produce high quality projects in an efficient manner. IOC Company, L.L.C. also produces sand, gravel, flex base (caliche) and other construction materials.

Sources

Victim siteioccompany.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 26, 2023IOC listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Royal dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, IOC is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means IOC 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 Royal'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.