Was nursing.com hit by ransomware?

nursing.com was listed by the Ransomexx 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 Ransomexx ransomware group?

Ransomexx 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 nursing.com breach?

Ransomexx published data attributed to nursing.com, around 568221 users records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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nursing.com

Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 2 years ago

568221 users

Records

23m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 3, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomexx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 3, 2024
Records: 568221 users

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NURSING.com is an online educational platform providing NCLEX exam preparation and nursing school support resources, including adaptive practice questions, video lessons, and study plans. The platform serves over 700,000 students and claims a 99.25% NCLEX pass rate. It offers multi-stage nursing education support from pre-nursing through post-licensure certifications.

Industry: Healthcare Education & NCLEX Test Prep

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of a large user database (568,221 records) from an education platform serving nursing students. While not explicitly regulated data like medical records, the scale and nature of student PII (names, emails, study data) represents significant exposure of personal information. Educational credentials and study patterns could enable identity theft or targeted attacks.

Ransomexx claims to have exfiltrated a database dump containing 568,221 user records from NURSING.com. The group published this information as proof of compromise.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

User database (568,221 records)
Student profile data
Account credentials or authentication data
Personal study information

What the group claims

NURSING.com is an all-in-one online platform designed to help nursing students succeed in their studies and pass the NCLEX® exam with confidence. It provides a variety of resources, including video lessons, practice questions, cheat sheets, and custom study plans tailored to individual learning needs. The platform is particularly beneficial for visual learners, students with ADHD, dyslexia, and those who experience anxiety. Database dump, 568221 users.

Sources

Victim sitenursing.com
Leak posthttp://rnsm777cdsjrsdlbs4v5qoeppu3px6sb2igmh53jzrx7ipcrbjz5b2ad.onion/./2024/08/03/nursing-com/index.html

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 3, 2024nursing.com listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site

Records: 568221 users

Other recent disclosures by Ransomexx

Ransomexx has been linked to 86 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nursing.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means nursing.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 Ransomexx'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.