Was mioa.gov hit by ransomware?

mioa.gov was listed by the Stormous ransomware operation (North Macedonia), 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 Stormous ransomware group?

Stormous 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 mioa.gov breach?

Stormous published data attributed to mioa.gov. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Ministry of Interior Affairs

listed as mioa.gov · Claimed by Stormous · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 14, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: North Macedonia
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Mar 14, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

mioa.gov.mk is the official website of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of North Macedonia, a government agency responsible for interior administration and public security matters.

Industry: Government Administration

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Attack on a government ministry (interior affairs) with confirmed data publication. Government and law enforcement data is inherently sensitive and regulated; even without specific inventory details, compromise of such an entity poses critical national security and citizen safety risks.

Stormous claims to have compromised the Ministry of Interior Affairs. Data has been published as part of the disclosure, though specific details of what was exfiltrated are not provided in the available leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

Sources

Victim sitemioa.gov.mk

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 245 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 14, 2024mioa.gov listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Stormous

Stormous has been linked to 245 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, mioa.gov is reported in North Macedonia.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Stormous means mioa.gov 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Stormous'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.