Was paynesvilleareainsurance.com hit by ransomware?

paynesvilleareainsurance.com was listed by the ransomed 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 ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed 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 paynesvilleareainsurance.com breach?

ransomed published data attributed to paynesvilleareainsurance.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Dombrovski Insurance Agency, LLC

listed as paynesvilleareainsurance.com · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$10.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023
Ransom demanded: $10.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dombrovski Insurance Agency, LLC is a family-owned independent insurance agency located in Paynesville, Minnesota, established in 1987. The agency offers insurance products from over 15 carriers, allowing them to shop the marketplace for clients seeking comprehensive coverage at competitive prices. It operates as a small, local agency serving personal and business insurance needs in central Minnesota.

Industry: Independent Insurance Agency
Address: Paynesville, Minnesota, United States
Employees: 1-10
Founded: 1987

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The group claims server compromise and website defacement with data published, but no specific regulated or large-scale data exfiltration is described. As an insurance agency, client PII and policy data could be at risk, but no explicit inventory or volume of sensitive data is confirmed.

The group 'ransomed' claims to have compromised the company's servers and defaced their website, demanding a ransom of $10,000. No specific data exfiltration volume is mentioned, but the disclosed status indicates data was published.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Server access
Website defacement evidence

What the group claims

We have compromissed the servers of paynesvilleareainsurance.com. We decided to make sure they remember us so we have also defaced them.Archive SnapshopWe require a ransom of $10,000

Sources

Victim sitepaynesvilleareainsurance.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

September 3, 2023paynesvilleareainsurance.com listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $10.000

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 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, paynesvilleareainsurance.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means paynesvilleareainsurance.com 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 ransomed'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.