Was First Financial Security hit by ransomware?

First Financial Security was listed by the Ransomhouse 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 Ransomhouse ransomware group?

Ransomhouse 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 First Financial Security breach?

Ransomhouse published data attributed to First Financial Security (~743 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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First Financial Security, Inc.

listed as First Financial Security · Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 3 years ago

743 GB

Data size

$740

Ransom

demanded

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 28, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomhouse
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Nov 28, 2023
Data size: 743 GB
Ransom demanded: $740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

First Financial Security is a United States-based life insurance and financial education company operating under the domain firstfinancialsecurity.com. The company provides life insurance products and financial literacy or planning services to individuals and families. Its website is built on the Wix platform, suggesting a small-to-mid-size operation.

Industry: Life Insurance & Financial Education

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 743 GB of data from a life insurance and financial services firm almost certainly contains regulated PII, financial records, and insurance policy data at scale, and the status is 'data_published' indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release.

RansomHouse claims to have encrypted systems and exfiltrated approximately 743 GB of data from First Financial Security; the post indicates data has been published and lists the ransom at $740.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client personal information
Life insurance policy records
Financial records
Internal business documents

What the group claims

First Financial Security (FFS) is a national brokerage agency that works to equip, train, and support licensed insurance representatives to deliver innovative financial products to households across America.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 28, 2023First Financial Security listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site

Data size: 743 GB
Ransom demanded: $740

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, First Financial Security is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means First Financial Security 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 Ransomhouse'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.