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

October 13, 2023Metroclub.org listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Data size: 2.1 TB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector. Geographically, Metroclub.org 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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MetroClub

listed as Metroclub.org · Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

2.1 TB

Data size

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 13, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality
Listed on leak site: Oct 13, 2023
Data size: 2.1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MetroClub (metroclub.org) is a private membership club based in Washington, D.C. As a private club, it likely serves professional, business, or social networking functions for its members in the D.C. area. No further verified public details are available from the site.

Industry: Private Members' Club & Hospitality
Address: Washington, D.C., United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — 2.1 TB of confirmed exfiltrated data including a full membership list and employee records from a private D.C. club constitutes significant PII exposure at scale; membership data from a private Washington D.C. club may carry additional sensitivity given the likely professional/political profile of members.

The group 'ransomed' claims to have exfiltrated 2.1 TB of data from the metroclub.org website, including the complete membership list and employee data, with additional data collection reported as ongoing at the time of disclosure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Complete membership list
Employee records
Full website content

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

We successfully extracted the entire content of the metroclub.org website, belonging to Metroclub, a private club based in Washington, D.C. The extracted data amounts to 2.1 terabytes. The accompanying screenshot provides a glimpse of critical information, although we are still in the process of collecting additional data. Our haul includes the complete membership list, employee…

Sources

Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=9

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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